A spacecraft of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will take the satellite to the International Space Station, for its deployment into space, likely at the end of the first quarter next year.
A video that went viral on Tuesday shows a whirlwind on a road in Guanacaste, “formed by the effects of high temperatures on air,” a local meteorologist said.
The Legislative Assembly's approval allows the climate change agreement to become a law in Costa Rica, pending the signing by President Luis Guillermo Solís.
While floods and tornadoes in the U.S. have killed at least 49, in France the unseasonably warm weather has strawberries, asparagus and mimosas all flourishing on the French Riviera.
Costa Rican Christiana Figueres was awarded the Medal of Paris on Wednesday for helping broker the historic, 195-nation deal to avert climate change that was sealed in the French capital last week.