Several days after her disappearance, Melida Thomas Dixon was found dead with stab wounds inside a camper van. The 67-year-old American was found in the early hours of Monday, after an alert made by her son who hadn’t been able to contact her on the phone for several days. The discovery occurred in a rural […]
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Firefighters rescue turtle on Isla del Coco
Firefighters from the Isla del Coco station helped a Kemp’s ridley turtle, after a group of conservationists aboard the Sharkwater boat found it pressed into a fishing net. At the request of the park guards of the Isla del Coco National Park, fire paramedics in consultation with veterinarians of the Fire Department, applied medications to […]
Trees that help the climate are more abundant in tropical forests
A study published recently by the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution (NEE), showed that nitrogen fixing trees, of the Leguminosae family, are more abundant in secondary tropical forests of seasonally dry and young zones, than in secondary forests of humid zones and with more development time. This is considered a transcendental data for the restoration […]
OAS: Fire in Nicaragua is a crime against humanity
Luis Almagro, secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), described the fire that occurred in Nicaragua this Saturday as a crime against humanity. Six people died in the fire: four adults and two babies. According to the preliminary versions, the fire was caused by police and orteguista paramilitary because the family refused to […]
Iván Duque will be the new president of Colombia
The rightist Iván Duque, political ally of former president Alvaro Uribe, was chosen this Sunday as the new president of Colombia, according to the first results read by the electoral authority with 96,99% of the pools. With 54.07% of the votes, the 41-year-old former senator beat former-guerrilla Gustavo Petro (41.72%) by a large margin in […]
Architect Promotes Creation of Biological Station in Manuel Antonio National Park
Manuel Antonio National Park is a wilderness area with one of the highest number of visits by national and foreign tourists, due to its rich biological resources. However, all its potential for research and tourism has not been exploited in order to reactivate the economy. Therefore, Gustavo Cordero López, an Architecture graduate from Universidad Hispanoamericana, […]