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Costa Rica’s Crucitas Gold Crisis Deepens as Illegal Mining Spreads

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Costa Rica is facing one of its most difficult environmental and security tests in years as illegal gold mining spreads through Crucitas, a remote...
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Costa Rica Camera Traps Capture Wild Fish Hunt in Guanacaste

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I’ve been interested in wildlife my entire life. If younger me knew what I was up to these days, playing with camera traps in...
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Guanacaste Faces One of Its Worst Droughts as Rain Hits Much of Costa Rica

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Guanacaste is facing one of its worst drought situations in years, even as much of Costa Rica deals with heavy rain, saturated soils and...
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Costa Rica Studies Find Microplastics in Beaches, Fish, Livestock and Poultry

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Costa Rica’s microplastics problem is no longer limited to plastic bottles, bags, and debris washing up on beaches. Local research has found tiny plastic...
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Sargassum Arrivals Break Records in Costa Rica’s Caribbean

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The Center for Marine Science and Limnology Research (Cimar-UCR) reported that sargassum is breaking arrival records in Costa Rica’s Caribbean region. Cimar researchers Cindy...
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Documentary Highlights Costa Rica’s Howler Monkey Crisis

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There is a sound that defines the Costa Rican jungle before dawn: a deep, resonant roar that can carry for five kilometers through the...
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Costa Rica’s Capital Turns to 3,000 Trees to Cool San José

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San José is moving to confront one of the capital’s most visible climate problems: heat trapped by concrete, asphalt and traffic. The Municipality of...
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New Seismic Station on Isla del Coco Improves Costa Rica Earthquake Monitoring

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Costa Rica has added Isla del Coco to its national seismic monitoring network for the first time, giving scientists a new permanent observation point...
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18 Million Dead Bees and a Warning Costa Rica Cannot Afford to Ignore

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Costa Rica’s beekeeping sector is raising alarm after APIPAC, the Association of Beekeepers United of the Central Pacific, estimated that pesticide exposure has killed...
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Flesh Eating Fly That Spread Through Costa Rica Has Reached Texas

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For decades, a small facility in Panama stood between the United States cattle industry and one of the most destructive parasites in the Western...
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