great news from Costa Rica
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YouTube-assembled orchestra plays Carnegie Hall to sold-out crowdThey came from 33 countries to achieve Internet history and answer the age-old question, "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" |
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Green gauntlet
Costa Rica sets itself 'huge' carbon neutral target
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Regrowing the rainforestRainforests of Costa Rica - Half a century after most of Costa Rica's rainforests were cut down, researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute took on a project that many thought was impossible - restoring a tropical rainforest ecosystem. |
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Rare Leatherback Turtles Gain Protection in Costa RicaPlaya Grande, Costa Rica - As dawn breaks on Playa Grande, the light reveals shallow sand pits where leatherback sea turtles laid their eggs the night before. |
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Rain Power: Harvesting Energy from the SkyGrenoble, France - Researchers who study energy harvesting see energy all around us – we just need to find a way to capture that energy. One of the latest energy harvesting techniques is converting the mechanical energy from falling raindrops into electricity that can be used to power sensors and other electronics devices. |
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Costa Rica gets forest fund boostThe US and conservation groups will cut $26m (£12.8m) from Costa Rican debt in return for the country spending the same sum on forest protection. |
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Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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UNESCO adds 23 new sites to global network of biosphere reservesUnited Nations - Remote cloud forests in Viet Nam, hundreds of atolls in Micronesia and mangroves in El Salvador are featured in the 23 ecosystems which were added today to a United Nations network set up to fight biodiversity loss and promote sustainable development that helps local communities. |
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Dole Food Company, Inc. Announces Carbon-Neutral Project In Collaboration With Costa RicaWestalke Village, California, USA - Dole Food Company, Inc. today announced that Standard Fruit de Costa Rica, Dole's operating subsidiary in Costa Rica, and Fondo Nacional de Financiamento Forestal (FONAFIFO), the National Forestry Financing Fund and an entity of the Ministry of Environment and Energy of Costa Rica, signed a ground breaking agreement to work together on a project aimed at establishing a carbon neutral product supply chain for bananas and pineapples, from their production in Costa Rica to the markets in North America and Europe. |
news from Central America
- Appreciation finds no language barriers during Continuing Promise
- Maya nut changes lives while aiding the rain forest
- YouTube-assembled orchestra plays Carnegie Hall to sold-out crowd
- Green Travel: Where Dreams Come True
- A global lesson in volunteerism
- Rare ‘dinky’ bird migrates to US for first time
- Guatemalan women build unique partnership with leading US yerba mate distributor
- Green gauntlet
- Regrowing the rainforest
- Rare Leatherback Turtles Gain Protection in Costa Rica
