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These 50 metre-high rope bridges are helping sloths in Costa Rica survive deforestation
Zoologist Rebecca Cliffe knows some people see sloths as "boring, lazy animals," but she believes there's something special about their slow pace.
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Costa Rica archaeologists in awe as Brooklyn Museum returns 1,305 artifacts
An unfinished tombstone, a large ceramic vase painted with beeswax, human representations and ancient tools to process corn are artifacts of a collection of 1,305 pieces that have been returned to Costa Rica. It is the second time the Brooklyn Museum in New York City has returned pieces, some older than 2,000 years, to the central American country.
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Benjamin Ingrosso - Costa Rica (Official Audio)
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Costa Rica Set To Become The Worlds First Plastic-Free And Carbon-Free Country By 2021
Costa Rica generates 99% of its energy from renewables. Now there's a plan to make that 100%.
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Costa Rica Is Running Only with Renewable Energy in the Last Months | The Costa Rica News
Costa Rica has achieved an extraordinary milestone in the history of green energy. Only with renewable energies, this country has been operating for more than 6 months. The heavy rains in the region have allowed the country to completely renounce fossil fuels, and to feed almost entirely on the electricity generated from 4 hydroelectric plants …
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Costa Rica Commits to Fully Decarbonize by 2050
With a 95% share of renewables in its electricity matrix and solid achievements to prevent deforestation - 52 % of the national territory is covered by forests - the Central American nation of Costa Rica is already a world leader in terms of environmental sustainability. However, Costa Rica wants to go further and be an international example of climate action and ambition.
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While Paris and Washington fought over climate measures, Costa Rica went 300 days on renewable energy alone
While the west battles itself over the reality of climate change, reasonable diesel tax and how to make their countries sustainable and eco-friendly, Costa Rica has broken their own renewable energy record. The entirety of Costa Rica went 300 days using only renewable energy, beating their own 2015 record of of 299 days on renewable energy, according to The Independent.
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Love and Madness in the Jungle
A brilliant American financier and his exotic wife build a lavish mansion in the jungles of Costa Rica, set up a wildlife preserve, and appear to slowly, steadily lose their minds. A spiral of handguns, angry locals, armed guards, uncut diamonds, abduction plots, and a bedroom blazing with 550 Tiffany lamps ends with a body and a compelling mystery. By Ned Zeman. (May 7, 2013)
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Costa Rica court: End gay marriage ban
Costa Rica's Supreme Court has ruled that the country's same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional and discriminatory. The court ruling gives the country's legislators a time limit of 18 months to change the current law. The president welcomed the ruling, saying he wants to guarantee "no person will face discrimination for their sexual orientation". However many lawmakers are evangelicals who strongly oppose gay marriage.
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Costa Rica Smashes Record, Runs 300 Days on 100% Renewable Energy
While the rest of the world argues over the legitimacy of climate change and the need to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, Costa Rica continues to smash its own renewable energy records. In 2015, the Central American nation generated 100 percent of its electricity from renewable energy sources for 299 days. And last year, the country ran for 271 days on clean energy.
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Costa Rica to ban fossil fuels and become world's first decarbonised society
Costa Rica’s new president has announced a plan to ban fossil fuels and become the first fully decarbonised country in the world. Carlos Alvarado, a 38-year-old former journalist, made the announcement to a crowd of thousands during his inauguration on Wednesday. "Decarbonisation is the great task of our generation and Costa Rica must be one of the first countries in the world to accomplish it, if not the first," Mr Alvarado said.
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Washington Redskins Cheerleaders Describe Topless Photo Shoot and Uneasy Night Out
When the Washington Redskins took their cheerleading squad to Costa Rica in 2013 for a calendar photo shoot, the first cause for concern among the cheerleaders came when Redskins officials collected their passports upon arrival at the resort, depriving them of their official identification.
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A Dying 700-Year-Old Banyan Tree Was Brought Back to Life With an IV
It's clinging to life drip-by-drip.
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Deep in the Costa Rican rainforest
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Costa Rica Elects Pro-Gay Marriage Leader in Surprise Landslide
Costa Ricans elected a candidate from the ruling party to be their next president, confounding polls which had predicted a win for an evangelical preacher who’d campaigned on his opposition to gay marriage. Carlos Alvarado, 38, a novelist and former labor minister will take office on May 8, after winning 61 percent of the vote, with 95 percent of polling stations reporting.
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Juice Company Dumped Orange Peels In A Deforested Area - Here's What It Looks Like After 16 Years
A couple of ecologists named Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs had an idea for a local orange juice company in Costa Rica — little did they know, their idea would lead to a discovery of a lifetime. In 1997, the pair approached the orange juice company and had a proposition for them. If they donated a piece of completely unspoiled, forested land to the Área de Conservación Guanacaste, then they could dump their discarded peels and pulp free of charge.
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How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find
An experimental conservation project that was abandoned and almost forgotten about, has ended up producing an amazing ecological win nearly two decades after it was dreamt up.
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Orange is the new green: How orange peels revived a Costa Rican forest
A team led by Princeton University researchers surveyed the land 16 years after the orange peels were deposited. They found a 176 percent increase in aboveground biomass — or the wood in the trees — within the 3-hectare area studied (7 acres). Their results are published in the journal Restoration Ecology. This story, which involves a contentious lawsuit, showcases the unique power of agricultural waste to not only regenerate a forest but also to sequester a significant amount of carbon at no cost.
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Orange is the new green: How orange peels revived a Costa Rican forest
In the mid-1990s, 1,000 truckloads of orange peels and orange pulp were purposefully unloaded onto a barren pasture in a Costa Rican national park. Today, that area is covered in lush, vine-laden forest.
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Tropical Storm Otto Nears Hurricane Strength; Forecast to Make Very Rare Thanksgiving Hurricane Central America Landfall
A rare late-season tropical cyclone poses a dangerous threat to Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
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