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  • 150,000 Evacuated in Latin America Floods

    AMERICAS, 2015/12/26 Flooding in parts of Latin America dampened Christmas eve celebrations Thursday, leaving five people dead and driving almost 150,000 from their homes in Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay. Some 130,000 people have been forced from their homes across Paraguay, officials said, as President Horacio Cartes declared a national of emergency to free up additional than $3.5 million in disaster funds. Three people traveling Paraguay's international Route 2, which links Asuncion and Foz de Iguazu in Brazil were killed at the same time as a tree fell on their vehicle before dawn.

  • Costa Rica has only used renewable energy this year

    COSTA RICA, 2015/04/04 Costa Rica has reached an environmental milestone by using only renewable energy to generate power for at least the initial 75 days of the year, a record for any country. The Central American country, which has long boasted of its green credentials on energy policy, was able to achieve the milestone thanks to heavy rain in the initial three months of the year. Around four-fifths of its electricity supply comes from hydro-electric power, which was boosted by rainfall at four major dams.

  • Do Costa Rica crops have a ‘Water Footprint’?

    COSTA RICA, 2013/03/22 A group of experts from the Center for Water Resources in Central America and the Caribbean (Hidrocec), at the National University (UNA), are studying how much water is consumed by Costa Rica’s agricultural sector, the country’s top consumer of the resource.“In Costa Rica, government officials prioritize short-term development that puts at risk what’s most important for the country’s development: water and land,” experts say.

  • Nicaragua Rules Out Water Contamination by Volcano Eruption

    NICARAGUA, 2012/12/28 Experts of the Territorial Studies Nicaraguan Institute (INETER) ruled out the possible contamination of the waters near the turbulent San Cristobal volcano in Chinandega, the coordinator of the Communication and Citizenship Council, Rosario Murillo, reported today. Murillo said that experts admitted the impossibility of determining how critical could be the activity of the country´s highest volcano (thousand 745 meters), whose activity strengthened since Tuesday.

  • Costa Rica’s plan to be completely carbon-neutral by 2021.

    COSTA RICA, 2012/12/28 It may have been a politically ambitious pronouncement at the same time as ex-President Oscar Arias declared in 2009 – his last year in office – that Costa Rica would become the world’s prime carbon-neutral country by 2021. Other nations as well declared their intentions of becoming the prime carbon-neutral country, but have since scaled back those promises or rolled back their target dates. Since 2009, observers have noted that Costa Rica likely will join them, from presently on pushing back its goal by to 10 years.

  • New higher capacity hybrid buses unveiled on Wednesday in San José

    COSTA RICA, 2012/12/28 President Laura Chinchilla on Wednesday signed an executive order for the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) to buy “the cleanest and cheapest energy available in the country” starting in January. The order as well includes a request to the Public Services Regulatory Authority (ARESEP) to oversee public institutions to comply with this guideline.
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