Precautionary arrangement signals Costa Rica’s very strong policy frameworks and economic achievements, and sets the stage for further gains In early June, the IMF approved a two-year Flexible Credit ...

During spring break, Community Reporting Intern Daisy Gomez, a student at the University of Nevada, Reno, traveled to Costa Rica with the Hitchcock Project for Visualizing Science to see firsthand how ...

This story was produced in partnership with The Hitchcock Project for Visualizing Science and Noticiero Móvil at the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno. Local efforts like ...

When Oviyanna Umoh, a neuroscience and psychology double major at the University of Delaware, heard about a study abroad program that included field research in cultural psychology in Kyoto, Japan, ...

A sloth perches languidly on a branch in one of Costa Rica’s vast forest preserves. (Gabriella Chavez/WUFT News) LA FORTUNA, COSTA RICA — Near a lively stretch of Highway 142, one of Costa Rica’s ...

As soon as you step off the plane into the busy San José airport, nature is the first thing you see. Before you get a chance to look out a window, pass through immigration, or have your bag scanned ...

Fruit-eating bats play an important role in maintaining forest health by being seed dispersers. For decades, researchers have explored ways to harness this capacity as a reforestation tool. One method ...

The milky specks known as hummingbird mites are among the most skilled hitchhikers in the world. They live their lives inside flowers and inflorescences, where they feed on nectar and pollen, mate, ...

Michael Wasserman is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Human Biology, P.I. of the Primate Environmental Endocrinology Lab (PEEL), and Director of the Human Biology Program at Indiana University ...

A coral-fungus-farming worker of the fungus-farming ant species Apterostigma collare, collected at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica in 2015, on its fungus garden. Credit: Alex ...

Abstract: This paper analyzes the spatial and temporal dynamics of forest structure in tropical wet forest at the La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica. Three small-footprint lidar datasets from ...