COSTA RICA

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Ground reality

Animal diversity in the soil mapped for the first time

Carbon emissions from forests drop by 25 per cent: FAO

Slowdown in deforestation contributes to emission reduction

News 360° - Briefs

Barbed wire isn't the answer

Fencing off biodiversity hot spots cannot protect species

COSTA RICA

Costa Rica for leatherback turtles

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IN COURT

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Dutch to pay ecological debts

The Netherlands is negotiating with Bhutan, Costa Rica and Benin a long-term reciprocal development treaty that is based on Dutch assumption that …

Share-ware

A usual story: a transnational company develops a profitable product based on the resources and knoledge preserved by an indigenous community …

Costa Rica beating its own records on renewable energy usage

The nation went 300 days using only renewable energy this year. It beat its own 2015 record in doing so

Increasing Costa Rica’s riparian forests can improve its water quality, carbon storage

Reforesting 20 hotspots can provide large increases in water quality for 50,679 people dependent on rivers 

Emergency alert off Costa Rican coast after chemical spill

Ship carrying 200 tonnes of ammonium nitrate capsizes near tourist town of Puntarenas, people barred from swimming, fishing