All Cactuar Capers locations in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
Costa Del Sol has no shortage of fun minigames to take on, but Cacuaur Capers may be its most clever of all. Here's where to find all four pink Cactuars......»»
New deep-sea worm discovered at methane seep off Costa Rica
Greg Rouse, a marine biologist at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and other researchers have discovered a new species of deep-sea worm living near a methane seep some 50 kilometers (30 miles) off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. R.....»»
Meet the winners of the 2024 Dance Your PhD Contest
"One of the main messages I wanted to convey... is that differences lead to diversity." Weliton Menário Costa of the Australian National University won the 2024 Dance Your PhD contest with "Kangaroo Time." We've been following the.....»»
Costa Rica coffee farmers innovate as rainfall plummets
Costa Rican coffee farmers were once blessed with abundant rains but as precipitation grows fickle they are being forced to innovate to keep producing one of the world's favorite brews......»»
Apple Search Ads expands to Brazil and eight more countries
Apple Search Ads is launching soon in more countries, expanding into the Latin America region. Ads will soon start appearing in the App Store for Brazil, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama and Paraguay......»»
Urbanization has led some Costa Rican water sources to exceed safety levels: Study
Four decades of changes in land use in central Costa Rica have increased nitrate concentrations in drinking water, in some areas to potentially unsafe levels, according to a new study led by a University of Texas at Arlington scientist......»»
Silk lines help pirate spiders trick, capture eight-legged prey
Headlamps alone illuminated the trail bisecting the Costa Rican rainforest. Having waded the black of the Tirimbina reserve so often before, Gilbert Barrantes, Laura Segura Hernández and Diego Solano Brenes knew the routine......»»
Fly larvae: Costa Rica"s sustainable protein for animal feed
Raised in vertical farms and stuffed with fruit waste, fly larvae have been turned into animal feed, as a new Costa Rican venture in sustainability is demonstrating......»»
Farms with natural landscape features provide sanctuary for some Costa Rica rainforest birds
Small farms with natural landscape features such as shade trees, hedgerows and tracts of intact forest provide a refuge for some tropical bird populations, according to an 18-year study in Costa Rica......»»
In Costa Rica, saving seeds to feed future generations
In the tropical mountains of Costa Rica, scientists guard a treasure trove of seeds collected over decades as a bulwark against food insecurity and climate change......»»
Forgotten tropical plants rediscovered after 100+ years with the help of community science
Deep in the tropical Andes are hiding plants that were discovered and then forgotten; plants that we knew almost nothing about. Now, thanks to the combined efforts of botanists from Germany, Ecuador, Peru and Costa Rica and amateur plant enthusiasts,.....»»
Wild fruits with higher alcohol content found to be more widely dispersed by mammals
A team of researchers from the University of Calgary, Área de Conservación Guanacaste, the University of Exeter and the College of Central Florida has found that wild fruits in Costa Rica with higher alcohol content tend to be spread more widely by.....»»
Sympatric sloths adapt to their surroundings in the face of environmental fluctuations
Researchers have shed light on the activity patterns and behavioral adaptations of two sympatric sloth species, Bradypus variegatus and Choloepus hoffmanni. This study, conducted in the lowland rainforests of the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, offers.....»»
Costa Rican sloth antibiotics offer hope for human medicine
The fur of Costa Rican sloths appears to harbor antibiotic-producing bacteria that scientists hope may hold a solution to the growing problem of "superbugs" resistant to humanity's dwindling arsenal of drugs......»»
Sea level rises could threaten sea turtle breeding grounds
Sea level rises could lead to the flooding of sea turtle breeding grounds in Australia, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and the U.S., according to a study published in Scientific Reports. The findings suggest that flooding could contribute to the loss.....»»
Researchers inform ecological theory with findings from decades of coffee farm fieldwork
University of Michigan ecologists Ivette Perfecto and John Vandermeer made their initial forays into agrosystems biodiversity research in the late 1980s while teaching an ecology field course in Costa Rica......»»
Chevrolet ad agency hires new chief creative officer
Fabio Costa joins Commonwealth/McCann from Toyota agency Saatchi & Saatchi as the IPG overhauls its leadership. .....»»
Tesla"s latest crash highlights regulatory and legal challenges
It's not clear if the collision with a Contra Costa County involved the company's advanced driver assistance systems, but the case echoes others in which Tesla drivers using self-driving technology crashed into emergency vehicles......»»
The rise of green hydrogen in Latin America
Several projects are underway in the region to produce this clean energy source. Enlarge / A man fills the tank of his car with hydrogen at a station of the Ad Astra Rocket Company in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, on January 19, 2022......»»
Measuring the enduring grip strength of the brown-throated sloth
A small team of researchers from the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, working with one colleague from the Cahuita Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica and another from Youngstown State University, has found that the brown-th.....»»