environment

Stung by falling attendance and criticism over its treatment of orca whales, SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. will build new habitats for the animals at its theme parks.

President Luis Guillermo Solís extended the country’s ban on petroleum exploration and extraction until 2021 as well as creating guidelines for energy efficiency in government agencies.

"Beer is a powerful tool – you sit a beer in front of someone? They listen to you. About anything. It's like magic."

If the price of gas goes down, none of us will do anything to change.

An educational film on climate change is getting far reach, gaining an audience in arctic regions of Canada.

Dutch student Boyan Slat is only 19 years old, but he already has 100 people working on his revolutionary plan to scoop thousands of tons of damaging plastics from the oceans. The world's "plastic soup," much of it swirling around in five main gyres or rotating oceanic currents, costs billions of dollars to the fishing and tourism sectors every year.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Four former heads of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who served under Republican presidents urged lawmakers Wednesday to stop bickering over whether climate change is real and start finding solutions.

Faced with a tide of unwanted plastic bottle on the beach near his home, Donald Thomson, founder of Agua Costa Rica, saw an opportunity to turn trash into a high quality, zero-waste building material.

A comprehensive Tico Times analysis of the environmental successes and failures by the outgoing National Liberation Party administration of Laura Chinchilla. The first part in a two part series about the future of the environment in Costa Rica.

VIDEO: Butterflies and bees were caught caiman crocodilian tears at La Selva biological reserve in Puerto Viejo, Sarapiquí.