The government of Costa Rica will pay $360,000 in compensation to 18 couples impacted by the country's ban on in vitro fertilization, officials said Tuesday.

Technology - Business

Feb 13, 2013 not rated yet 0

Costa Rica has banned the import of shark fins, closing a legal loophole and targeting a link in a global production chain stretching to Asian markets, where shark fin soup is seen as a delicacy.

Biology - Ecology

Oct 11, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Singing mice (Scotinomys teguina) are not your average lab rats. Their fur is tawny brown instead of the common white albino strain; they hail from the tropical cloud forests in the mountains of Costa Rica; ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 10, 2012 4.8 / 5 (5) 0 |

(Phys.org) -- When nature lovers book vacations in the great outdoors, they want their dollars to help preserve the places they visit, and a University of Florida study suggests that often happens.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 10, 2012 3 / 5 (2) 1

Apple on Tuesday launched its iTunes store in Brazil as well as in 15 other Latin American countries.

Technology - Software

Dec 13, 2011 not rated yet 0

A species of crab found a thousand feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean near Costa Rica lives off the bacteria on its claws – bacteria that it fertilizes by waving them in methane and sulfide released from the ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Dec 03, 2011 4.8 / 5 (14) 8 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Microscopic animals that live in soils are as diverse in the tropical forests of Costa Rica as they are in the arid grasslands of Kenya or the tundra and boreal forests of Alaska and Sweden, ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 18, 2011 5 / 5 (7) 2 |

The role of national governments in ecological or environmental conservation remains contentious the world over. While scientists and campaigners alike often demand that governments regulate and encourage restoration projects; ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Aug 25, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- New samples of rock and sediment from the depths of the eastern Pacific Ocean may help explain the cause of large, destructive earthquakes similar to the Tohoku Earthquake that struck Japan ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Jun 29, 2011 4.5 / 5 (2) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the tropical rainforests of West Texas, which looked more like Costa Rica some 225 million years before cattle ranches and cotton fields would dot the landscape, it hunted by chasing and wrapping its tooth-filled ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Jan 12, 2011 5 / 5 (4) 1 |

The ancient stone spheres of Costa Rica were made world-famous by the opening sequence of "Raiders of the Lost Ark," when a mockup of one of the mysterious relics nearly crushed Indiana Jones.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Mar 22, 2010 4.2 / 5 (20) 19 |

A dung beetle from Costa Rica has been named after Charles Darwin and the Darwin Initiative. It was discovered during a Natural History Museum led expedition.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 22, 2009 3 / 5 (2) 0

Costa Rica is the happiest place on earth, and one of the most environmentally friendly, according to a new survey by a British non-governmental group.

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Jul 04, 2009 3 / 5 (5) 0

A quadriplegic since she was 14, Jessica Grimm learned long ago how to work around her body's limitations. She lives alone, uses a computer, has a job, even drives a car. But the Arlington, Texas, student must rely on a coterie ...

Medicine & Health - Health

Feb 09, 2009 4.5 / 5 (2) 0