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Costa Rica

June 2024

  • A small yellowish songbird perched on a log

    The age of extinction
    Rare birds at risk as narco-gangs move into forests to evade capture – report

    Cocaine traffickers have put two-thirds of Central America’s key habitats for threatened birds under threat, study finds

April 2024

  • Franz Tattenbach, Costa Rica's minister of environment and energy, during an interview

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘This country is what the world would like to be’: can Costa Rica’s environment minister keep its green reputation intact?

    Though touted as a model of environmental preservation, the country has recently signalled a shift from phasing out fossil fuels to boosting the economy. Franz Tattenbach on the tension between green credentials and growth

March 2024

  • Big waves in Nazaré, Portugal

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: Blustery conditions in Portugal while Central America swelters

    Maximum air temperature of 41C on 6 March at Cerro Huacalito in Costa Rica may break country’s record

January 2024

  • woman with long red hair in a suit in a courtroom

    US marshals lure fugitive killer of Texas cyclist out of hiding with yoga ad

    Officials give details of how Kaitlin Armstrong, convicted over murder of Anna Wilson in 2022, was arrested in Costa Rica

December 2023

  • On the Road Again

    Sweltering suits: one man’s eco parable – in pictures

  • Farmers spray onion crops in Cartago province in Costa Rica

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘We used to give hope to the world’: is Costa Rica’s green halo fading?

June 2023

  • An American crocodile in the Tarcoles river, in Tarcoles, Costa Rica.

    Scientists record first known ‘virgin birth’ in female crocodile in Costa Rica

    Reptile had been in captivity for 16 years when zookeepers discovered eggs, journal reports

April 2023

  • A forest in Costa Rica

    Why Costa Rica beats Britain in the conservation stakes

    Letters: Readers respond to George Monbiot’s article comparing a rich nation’s environmental failures and a poor one’s success
  • George Monbiot

    Costa Rica restored its ravaged land to health. The rich UK has no excuse for such complete failure

    George Monbiot
    Why does a wealthy, powerful nation struggle while a small, much poorer one succeeds, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
  • Nayib Bukele in January.

    El Salvador news outlet relocates to Costa Rica to avoid Bukele’s crackdown

    El Faro moves its headquarters to avoid ‘fabricated accusations’ after 25 years reporting on drug wars, crime and corruption

March 2023

  • A Green Iguana is seen at the National Biodiversity Park near Heredia, Costa Rica.

    Toddler’s mystery infection traced back to cake-snatching iguana

    Three-year-old was on beach in Costa Rica when reptile tried to steal her dessert and bit her hand

February 2023

  • Activists take part in a vigil for Rivera in San Jose in February 2020.

    Costa Rican farmer handed 22 years for murder of Indigenous land defender

    Brörán leader Yehry Rivera, 45, was shot and killed by Juan Varela during conflict in Terraba community in February 2020

January 2023

  • A painted bus and traffic lights in San José, Costa Rica

    My bad trip
    My bad trip – do you know the way to San José? Take the chicken bus!

    When Brie Veron and her friends book a ‘two-hour’ trip into Costa Rica, they aren’t expecting a 16-hour ordeal involving a shady cabbie and a dodgy curry

November 2022

  • Stéphanie Frappart refereeing Real Madrid’s Champions League match against Celtic in early November.

    ‘Keep conquering’: Stéphanie Frappart ready for moment of World Cup history

  • Golden toad in natural habitat

    The age of extinction
    ‘The ghost that haunts Monteverde’: how the climate crisis killed the golden toad

  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, president-elect of Brazil, speaks at Cop27.

    What happened at Cop27 on day nine?

  • Luminous … Wendy Chinchilla Araya in Clara Sola.

    Clara Sola review – miraculous drama of burgeoning sexuality and divine grace

October 2022

  • Chiriqui harlequin frog

    The age of extinction
    Animals we’ve lost: the vivid ‘waving’ frog that vanished suddenly

    Chiriquí harlequin frogs went extinct in 1996 due to a fungal disease that has driven the decline of 501 amphibian species

June 2022

  • This undated photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows Kaitlin Marie Armstrong. Police were searching Monday, May 23, 2022, for Armstrong, who is suspected in the fatal shooting of a professional cyclist at an Austin, Texas, home. The body of 25-year-old Anna Moriah "Mo" Wilson, of San Francisco, was found May 11. (U.S. Marshals Service via AP)

    US woman suspected in fatal shooting of elite cyclist arrested in Costa Rica

    Kaitlin Marie Armstrong, a yoga teacher, is accused of fatally shooting Anna Moriah Wilson over alleged love rivalry

May 2022

  • Rodrigo Chaves is sworn in as Costa Rica's new president, in San Jose<br>Costa Rica's new President Rodrigo Chaves delivers a speech after being sworn in during a ceremony at the hall of the Legislative Assembly, in San Jose, Costa Rica May 8, 2022. REUTERS/Mayela Lopez

    Costa Rica declares national emergency amid ransomware attacks

    President Rodrigo Chaves establishes emergency commission as one of his first acts amid attacks by Russian-speaking gang
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