Costa Rica says it is still after Sea Shepard’s Paul Watson
Email this page November 20th, 2013 (InsideCostaRica.com) Costa Rica’s judiciary press office confirmed this week that the country still has an active international arrest warrant for fugitive eco-activist, Paul Watson. Watson had recently claimed that he was no longer being sought by Costa Rica, in statements made on social networks. Officials stated that […]
Satellite map reveals deforestation in Costa Rica and around the world
Email this page (Interactive Map: Use the zoom buttons our your mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and reveal detail of deforestation. Click and drag to move around the region) November 20th, 2013 (InsideCostaRica.com) An interactive map based on data analysis of images captured by Landsat satellites reveals the deforestation of Costa Rica between the […]
Liberia company offering free testing of water arsenic levels
Email this page Wilberth Villalobos Castrillo / Voz de Guanacaste / Additional editing by Inside Costa Rica November 20th, 2013 – Due to the health alert in parts of Guanacaste related to the presence of arsenic in water supplies, the private company Agua Solutions has decided to offer free tests to detect arsenic levels until […]
Iceberg the size of Manhattan could threaten shipping
Email this page November 15, 2013 (AFP) – An iceberg the size of Manhattan has broken off a glacier in Antarctica and could survive long enough to drift into international shipping lanes, scientists said Thursday. A team led by British scientists has been monitoring the iceberg since it broke off the Pine Island Glacier in […]
Environmental court orders open-air dump in Nosara to close
Email this page By Arianna Mckinney / Voz de Guanacaste November 14th, 2013 – At the beginning of October, the Administrative Environmental Court ruled for the third time that the Nosara garbage dump must be closed, adding more force to previous orders to close the dump, which have been received since 2007. The court decision […]
2013 marked by record sea level, weather extremes: WMO
Email this page November 13, 2013 (AFP) – Sea levels this year posted a record high, making low-lying coastal regions ever more vulnerable to extreme weather like super-storm Haiyan, the UN said Wednesday. In an interim report on the planet’s climate, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) also estimated that 2013 was on course to be […]
Paul Watson decries ‘terrorist’ label
Email this page November 13, 2013 (AFP) – Fugitive eco-activist Paul Watson said Wednesday that green warriors were being classed as “terrorists” and accused Japan of coercing other countries into making demands for his arrest. The Canadian-born founder of Sea Shepherd, a marine conservation organisation, arrived in California on October 28, more than a year after fleeing arrest […]
Hundreds of unexplained sea turtle deaths alarming Central America
Email this page November 11, 2013 (AFP) – Hundreds of sea turtles are washing up dead on the beaches of Central America and scientists don’t know why. One hypothesis is that the killer is a potent neurotoxin that can be produced by algae during red tides, which are large accumulations of algae that turn sea […]
