Rare tornado rips apart homes in Naranjo
Email this page June 5th, 2013 (InsideCostaRica.com) Though rare in Costa Rica, tornados do occur, as witnessed by residents of Calle Valverde in Naranjo de Alajuela yesterday afternoon. In a matter of 30 minutes, a tornado swept through the community, tearing the roofs from homes, uprooting trees and power lines, and breaking windows. At […]
Police capture armed poachers on beach where environmentalist was killed
Email this page June 4th, 2013 (InsideCostaRica.com) Officers of the Fuerza Publica arrested two suspects yesterday on the beach of Moin. The suspects had in their possession turtle eggs, a homemade shotgun, and a .38 caliber handgun. The arrests took place on the same beach where Jairo Sandoval Mora, a 26-year-old environmentalist working to […]
Costa Rican environmentalist found killed execution-style
Email this page June 3rd, 2013 (InsideCostaRica.com) An environmentalist who worked to protect leatherback turtles in Limon was found dead on a beach on Friday. Authorities said that the beach was used by drug traffickers, though a motive in the killing of Jairo Mora Sandoval has yet to be determined. Mora worked with the […]
More storms likely during 2013 hurricane season
Email this page Rosanne Skirble for VOA The 2013 Atlantic Hurricane season could be busier and deadlier than average, according to predictions released Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA. The six-month seasonal outlook for Atlantic storms will be above average says Jerry Bell, lead Atlantic hurricane forecaster with NOAA’s Climate Prediction […]
Amazing Video of Costa Rican Beauty is Being Seen by Thousands in North Americans Theaters
Email this page BY WILBERTH VILLALOBOS CASTRILLO for VoN News Short but substantial. This describes the video made by the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT) to promote the country’s tourism activity in U.S. and Canadian markets. The one-minute film is being presented as a commercial just before the beginning of movies on 1345 screens located […]
UPDATED: Pair of early morning earthquakes rock Costa Rica
Email this page May 27th, 2013 (InsideCostaRica.com) An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale shook southern Costa Rica this morning. The quake struck at 3:41 a.m. on the country’s border region with Panama, at a shallow depth of just 7 miles. The earthquake’s epicenter was about 23 kilometers southwest of Sixaola. Perhaps […]
Costa Rica participates in global protest against Monsanto
Email this page May 27th, 2013 (InsideCostaRica.com) A group of Costa Ricans and foreigners participated in the global day of protest against Monsanto on Saturday. The company has been making a push to plant transgenic corn in Costa Rica this year. President of the Ecologists Federation, Mauricio Alvarez, said on Saturday that about 450 […]
New Monkey, Glow-in-Dark Roach, World’s Smallest Frog Among Top New Species
Email this page Faith Lapidus for VOA A cockroach that glows in the dark, a black fungus that’s ruining prehistoric cave art and a frog smaller than a child’s fingernail. These are three in a top-ten list of newly discovered species for 2012. An international committee of taxonomists announced their annual picks this week. Committee […]
