Costa Rica is emerging as a leading destination for green tourism. The extensive rainforest will play a vital part in counteracting global warming, serving as a vast bio-sink to soak up carbon dioxide. Tourists create CO2 by flying. But they are an important part of the solution. They provide the cash, and the incentive, to… Continue reading
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3 am in an outpost of Paradise, turtles in life-and-death race to the sea
It’s 3 am in an outpost of Paradise, a wide, flat beach on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast. Under the cool, cream glow of the full moon, I am a spectator at a race for life. At my feet, breaststroking along on tiny flippers over the hard sand at two yards a minute, is a survivor from… Continue reading →