The Central American isthmus was created about three million years ago, when the passage between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea was closed, due to the convergence between plates, volcanic activity and the uplift of mountain ranges. Until then we had been an...
On May 2, 20,000 m2 of wood and cardboard were set on fire in the yards of Empaques Santa Ana, located in El Coyol de Alajuela. This caused the largest fire in the last decade in Costa Rica. Extinguishing the fire required five days of work by 450 firefighters, 17...
In May 2020, the newspaper La Vanguardia reported that eight clams are responsible for monitoring contamination levels in an aqueduct that supplies eight million people in Poland. The peculiar system implemented by the Warsaw Municipal Water Department consists of...
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was talk of the great respite that was benefiting the planet with the mandatory quarantine. All over the world there were animal sightings in places as unsuspected as the big cities. Unfortunately the situation never...
The pangolin is one of the most trafficked mammals in the world. They are highly valued for food consumption and their scales are used to produce home remedies that promise to be the panacea that will cure all ills, ironically including respiratory ailments. For those...
Let’s imagine that one fine day, because of a tiny, invisible and insatiable bug, everything we know is transformed: toilet paper runs out in supermarkets, shops and schools close and jobs disappear, at the same time that everyone begins to fear the uncertainty...
