ONCE upon a time, museums were fusty-looking collections in glass cases with, perhaps, a few life-size stuffed wild animals or mannequins displaying strange foreign...
GEOGRAPHERS have found a rudimentaryhistory of pre-Columbian societieswritten in the sediment on the bottomsof Costa Rican lakes. The researchmay have debunked a popular conceptionabout...
THREE U.S. National Aeronauticsand Space Administration (NASA) jetsoutfitted with infrared cameras and radarhave detected a subterranean network ofancient rock-paved roads that lace CostaRica from...
THE morning sun spotlights a blessedpiece of earth: the site of the WaldorfSchool in the town of Playa Chiquita, fivekilometers south of Puerto Viejo...
HEAVY rains soaked the CentralValley relentlessly this week, wreakinghavoc on homes and infrastructure.The National Emergency Commission(CNE) reported it reacted to 54 incidentscaused by heavy...
TURRIALBA, Cartago – Despite boasting the second-most-polluted river in Costa Rica, mountainsideswhose trees have given way to pesticide-heavy farms, andone of the country’s most...
This usually peaceful, tourist-filled town turned into the site of one of the most tragic hostage situations in the country’s recent history this week,...
THE National Technical Secretariatof the Environment (SETENA) has rejectedan environmental-impact study for aproposed hydroelectric dam on thePacuare River, in the Caribbean provinceof Limón.On Monday,...
Costa Rica's productive sector blames the closing of companies and loss of jobs on the Central Bank (BCCR). Thirteen private sector groups and chambers...
The Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE) and the National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC-MINAE) annouced the Constitutional Court rejected the action filed by...
