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Foreign fishing fleets catch 90 percent of Costa Rica’s Pacific Tuna
While 15,000 Costa Rican fishermen and their families are suffering from a severe economic crisis, in the last 10 years international tuna fishing boats have taken more than 90 percent… Read more
The Macaws of Costa Rica Need Your Help, The ARA Project
As you may or may not know the land under the Ara Project in Rio Segundo de Alajuela has been sold and the birds and volunteers are being evicted. It… Read more
Nosara Wildlife Rescue Collects 100 Donations For Annual Howler Monkey Fundraiser
Rosie Heindl, a volunteer working with the auction, says they have collected over one hundred donated items for the 5th Annual Save The Howlers Auction that will be held at… Read more
Catching Some Zzzz’s At Costa Rica’s Sloth Sanctuary
They often arrive in bad shape — hit by cars, zapped by high-voltage wires as they climb trees, or orphaned because superstitious locals have killed their moms. But life gets… Read more
Macaw Population Being Revitalized in Nicoya Peninsula
Once abundant in the Nicoya Peninsula, the Ara Macaw (lapa roja) population has decreased over the years, but efforts are now being made to help the macaws recover. Nelson Marin… Read more
Law Proposal to Restructure National Parks and Wildlife Refuges
The Ministry of Environment and Energy (Ministerio de Ambiente y Energía, SITRAMINAE) Workers Union and former Environment deputy minister, Mario Boza, announced that a new law aimed to restructure the… Read more
Innovative Biodiesel Project to Move Costa Rican Surf School Towards Carbon Neutrality
Safari Surf School, Costa Rica’s premier surf school and camp for fourteen years, strives to be carbon neutral with the addition of the “Innovative Biodiesel Project” — the world’s first… Read more
Scientific expedition studies geology of Costa Rican earthquake fault
Puntarenas, Costa Rica – An international team of scientists has just returned from an ocean drilling expedition on board the JOIDES Resolution, near the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, designed… Read more
Three-nation crew blasts off for space station
ALMATY | Wed Dec 19, 2012 8:58am EST ALMATY (Reuters) – A Soyuz spacecraft carrying a Russian, an American and a Canadian blasted off on Wednesday to the International Space… Read more
NASA crashes two probes into a mountain on the moon
By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida | Tue Dec 18, 2012 10:22am EST CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – A pair of NASA moon-mapping probes smashed themselves into a lunar mountain… Read more
Mind-controlled robotic arm has skill and speed of human limb
By Chris Wickham LONDON | Mon Dec 17, 2012 12:25pm EST LONDON (Reuters) – A paralyzed woman has been able to feed herself chocolate and move everyday items using a… Read more
Human link to climate change stronger than ever: draft report
By Nina Chestney and Alister Doyle LONDON | Fri Dec 14, 2012 11:20am EST LONDON (Reuters) – International climate scientists are more certain than ever that humans are responsible for… Read more
NASA moon-mapping mission to come to a crashing end
By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida | Thu Dec 13, 2012 8:43pm EST CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – NASA plans to crash a pair of small robotic science probes into… Read more
Agriculture teacher in Costa Rica sentenced, paid students for sex
A 51 year old agriculture teacher in both high school and primary school, was sentenced to 45 years in prison for paying students between 15,000 and 20,000 colones to have… Read more
Big asteroid flying by, no threat to Earth
By Irene Klotz Wed Dec 12, 2012 6:09pm EST (Reuters) – A large asteroid that flies in nearly the same orbit as Earth will make a close pass by the… Read more
Hubble telescope spies seven galaxies from baby years of universe
By Irene Klotz Wed Dec 12, 2012 5:47pm EST CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., December 12 – Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have found seven galaxies that formed relatively shortly after… Read more
Humans made cheese 7,500 years ago, researchers say
LONDON | Wed Dec 12, 2012 2:17pm EST LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists have found the earliest evidence of prehistoric cheese-making from a study of 7,500-year-old pottery fragments that are perforated… Read more
Ten Commandments join Isaac Newton’s notes online
LONDON | Wed Dec 12, 2012 2:03pm EST LONDON (Reuters) – A copy of The Ten Commandments dating back two millennia and the earliest written Gaelic are just two of… Read more
U.S. military’s secret mini-shuttle lifts off from Florida
By Irene Klotz Tue Dec 11, 2012 7:50pm EST (Reuters) – An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket carrying a small robotic space shuttle lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station… Read more
Toothy prehistoric lizard named Obamadon after smiling president
By Jason McLure Tue Dec 11, 2012 5:43pm EST (Reuters) – Researchers have named a newly discovered, prehistoric lizard “Obamadon gracilis” in honor of the 44th president’s toothy grin. The… Read more
