World Food Day: Ending hunger is possible, UN says
Email this page ROME, October 16, 2013 (AFP) – The United Nations marked World Food Day on Wednesday saying it was possible to eradicate hunger and stressing the importance of cutting food waste and ensuring balanced diets. “We can win the fight against hunger,” Jose Graziano da Silva, the director-general of the UN Food and […]
Radical climate change just around the corner: study
Email this page October 10th, 2013 (AFP) – Earth may experience a radically different climate already within 34 years, forever changing life as we know it, said a study Wednesday that aims to bring the dangers of global warming into sharper focus. On current trends of greenhouse-gas emissions, 2047 will mark the year at which the […]
Canadian mining company will move forward with $1 billion lawsuit against Costa Rica
Email this page October 7th, 2013 (InsideCostaRica.com) Canadian mining firm, Infinito Gold, announced on Friday that it will move forward with a $1 billion lawsuit against Costa Rica a moratorium on open-pit mining put the brakes on development of its open-pit mine in 2010. Lawmakers and regulators also claimed there were “irregularities” in […]
Nicaragua to aid threatened tapirs
Email this page MASAYA, October 7, 2013 (AFP) – Nicaragua is pulling out the stops to try to aid threatened tapirs, an endangered mammal sometimes mistaken for anteaters or tiny hippos. Experts in Nicaragua say the tapir’s long gestation period, poaching and loss of habitat caused by logging have led to dwindling numbers of the […]
US to clean up chemical weapons left in Panama: official
Email this page October 7th, 2013 (AFP) – The United States will clean up mustard gas bombs it left behind on an island in Panama where it tested them, a Panamanian official said Saturday. “The Americans will be sending in a special team to carry out the cleanup” on San Jose island on Panama’s Pacific […]
Ostional Turtles Will Be Seen by Thousands of Japanese
Email this page Wilberth Villalobos Castrillo / Voz de Guanacaste The typical arribadas(arrivals) of hundreds of turtles on the coast at Playa Ostional attracted the attention of a group of a Japanese television crew, who filmed the reptiles and other natural tourist attractions of Guanacaste to make them known in Asia. Wendy Cruz, officer of […]
New push for nationwide ban on GMO crops in Costa Rica
Email this page October 4th, 2013 (InsideCostaRica.com) Community organizations, environmentalists and lawmakers are making a renewed push for a nationwide moratorium on genetically modified crops in a new bill. After an intense push on the grassroots level, which resulted in some 80% of the country declaring itself “GMO-free,” activists are re-launching their campaign for […]
Scientists: “Next mass extinction event may have already begun”
Email this page October 4th, 2013 (AFP) – Marine scientists warned Thursday that our oceans are declining more rapidly than previously thought — becoming ever warmer and more acidic and losing oxygen at an alarming rate. “We have been taking the ocean for granted,” states a report that warns of a “deadly trio” of ocean […]
