Phoenixville, PA, September 03, 2015 --(PR.com)-- Watching the world go by makes Daniel the iguana very happy. In fact, he loves relaxing in the warm sunshine of his rainforest home. Some of the forest’s busier animals just don’t get it, but that’s OK with Daniel, who stars in Buffie Biddle’s first children’s book, released by Dog Ear Publishing. In the end, he teaches children that they should be...

Tourism Police Assisting Backpackers. Source: Fuerza Publica British Embasy Media Release - Glass fragments. Chemical composition. Blood patterns. Conclusive evidence. It’s a Tuesday afternoon at the Centro Cultural Británico in San José and police officers taking their weekly English lesson are furiously transcribing the key phrases that the English teacher has scribbled on the whiteboard:...

Today, August 31st, Costa Rica celebrates Afro Costa Rican Day, and one of the first activities that many Ticos will undertake this morning will consist of enjoying the most iconic dish of this country. It so happens that gallo pinto, a delicious breakfast that masterfully combines day-old rice and beans with fresh vegetables and spices, is a meal that we owe to Afro Caribbean immigrants in the fi...

Source: Instagram Nadja Purtschert, a professional snowboarder and surfer from Switzerland who also models swimwear and athletic apparel, will travel to Costa Rica later this year to learn Spanish, work on her tan, practice her surfing skills, and enjoy the beaches of our country. While in Costa Rica, Miss Purtschert will be a student of Yalea Languages, a respected Swiss Academy that speci...

Wikimedia Commons Svalbard, Norway – Crop Trust Press Release – Varieties of one of the world’s most important staple crops will be stored for perpetuity deep in the Arctic ice today. José Graziano da Silva, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is joining scientific experts and delegations from Peru, Costa Rica and Norway to witness a ceremony h...

By Mauricio Costanzo, 2009 Flickr Creative Commons 2.0 By Carolina Cusirramos Lima, Aug 27 (EFE).- Aware of the threat that climate change poses to their livelihoods, rural communities in Peru are dealing with global warming by using both traditional and scientific techniques discussed in a new book, "Lecciones para la Tierra" (Lessons for the Earth). The book recounts 20 experiences fro...

Source: IAU Mexico City, Aug 24 (EFE).- Mexico's Silvia Torres-Peimbert is the first Latin American woman to serve as president of the International Astronomical Union, or IAU, thanks to her five-decade scientific career. Torres-Peimbert, born in Mexico City in 1940, is only the second Latin American to lead the IAU - Argentina's Jorge Sahade headed the organization from 1985 to 1988 - and ...

University of North Georgia Media Release -- This summer, the first-ever study abroad opportunity for the University of North Georgia's (UNG) biology department took students to tropical reefs teeming with vibrant sea life off the coast of Belize and highland forests in Costa Rica, where 100 percent humidity keeps the treetops shrouded in mist. The group in Costa Rica studied the ecology of clo...

Source>: Von Kelemen School San José, Costa Rica (PRWEB) August 11, 2015 -- VonKelemen’s mission is to provide universal access to education — not just in the professional audio and music business disciplines, but broader realms encompassing contemporary arts, technology and business. The school, an online-learning center that opened its doors in 2011, provides a comprehensive 'Master Serie...

Cajamarquilla - Wikimedia Commons By Carolina Cusirramos Lima, Aug 13 (EFE).- Peru, a country with a rich historical heritage, has added drones to archaeology's classical tools for surveying, registering and protecting archaeological sites from climate- and human-caused damage. The use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, has so far helped in registering 375 archaeological sites, or 6...

Uvita, Costa Rica (PRWEB) August 12, 2015 -- Bodhi Surf School, a community-engaged surf and yoga camp in Uvita, Costa Rica, is proud to announce its 2015 My Ocean Guardian Journey Contest. The contest is an environmental essay and photo contest that aims to recognize individual actions that promote conservation and impact-reduction; moreover, it aims to give momentum to the grassroots movement to...

Costa Rica (PRWEB) August 11, 2015 -- Believe it or not, Spanish is the fourth most widely spoken language in the world. While learning a new language is exciting, it can also be downright challenging to master without the proper tools in place. That’s where SpanishBackpack.com comes into play. “Our goal at SpanishBackpack.com is to provide Spanish teachers and Spanish students with a fun tool ...

Source: UNED During a press conference that followed the delivery of a report to the United Nations, the Ombudsman of Costa Rica openly stated that our country is racist. Ombudsman Montserrat Solano explained that Costa Rica has improved in terms of racial equality, but she also added that there is a great deal of denial among many spheres of society, and that those who are the most affecte...

Source: Founder Institute Applications for the Costa Rica Founder Institute Summer Semester 2015 will be accepted until August 30th. The Founder Institute is the world's largest early-stage startup accelerator. Over 1,550 technology founders have already launched companies with the help of the Institute's company-building curriculum, expert feedback, and peer support. Anybody in Costa Rica ...

Wikimedia Commons San Jose, Costa Rica, FIVB Media Release– Thirty-two physical education teachers from Costa Rica participated in the FIVB VCP Young Players course under the guidance of FIVB instructor Miguel Holz Bodlaender of Chile, from July 27 to 31. The project was initiated by the national federation of Costa Rica and the Costa Rican Mnistry of Education (MEP)%2...

KANNAPOLIS, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--There are college students in Costa Rica balancing long hours in the laboratory with high-level science classes who are wondering where their education will take them. For at least two students, the answer is North Carolina. Dole Food Company is sponsoring banana and pineapple PhD programs in partnership with NC State University (NCSU), the NC Research Campus ...

University of Colorado Boulder. Source: Wikimedia Commons SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ:SPLK), provider of the leading software platform for real-time Operational Intelligence, today announced that Splunk software is being taught or used for research in more than 100 universities around the world. Using Splunk solutions in the classroom equips students and faculty with an...

Cabo Blanco, Costa Rica. Source: DigitalGlobe DigitalGlobe Media Release -- In June 2015, the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) offered a field-based graduate course in Costa Rica titled “Tropical Biology: An Ecological Approach.” To supplement the field-based instruction and incorporate a GIS (geographic information systems) and remote sensing component, Dr. Eben Broadbent, assistant pr...

NORWALK, CT -- For 2016 Tauck is expanding the breadth of its “Earth Journeys” partnership with the award-winning nature documentary filmmakers at BBC Earth to include its three trips exploring Costa Rica. Each of the three itineraries will be enhanced with exclusive content provided through the BBC Earth partnership, and the trio of Costa Rica trips join over a dozen other Earth Journeys itinerar...

UNESCO Event Announcement -- Remarking that “only a third part of the countries of the world reached the overall objectives of Education for All (EFA)” and with the coordinated effort with the Ministries of Education of Central America, the Education Sector of the Office of UNESCO for Central America and Mexico will publish the results of 15 years of investment of the Central American countries to...

Garcia Marquez. Source: Flickr Commons Bogota, Jul 22 (EFE).- Brazilian journalist Dorrit Harazim was awarded the Gabriel Garcia Marquez Journalism Prize for career excellence on Wednesday in honor of her coverage of international events spanning a half-century, award organizers said. The 72-year-old Harazim, a native of Croatia, is currently a columnist for the Rio de Janeiro daily O Globo...

Source: Wikimedia Commons Portland, Maine (PRWEB) July 22, 2015 – CIEE: Council on International Educational Exchange is expanding short-term study abroad offerings to increase access to international education opportunities for U.S. undergraduates of all academic disciplines and majors. Beginning in 2016, the leading nonprofit international education and exchange organization will offer 36 ne...

ISS. Source: Wikimedia Commons Washington, Jul 22 (EFE).- Russia on Wednesday launched a manned space mission to the International Space Station two months behind schedule because of recent problems with other launches. The Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft carrying a Russian, an American and a Japanese astronaut lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2102 GMT and began its climb i...

Digital Journal Press Release -- The Costa Rica School of Massage Therapy, a massage school in Samara, Nicoya, Costa Rica has launched their new 200 hour yoga teacher training on their beautiful campus. Classes will start in the summer of 2016 and people are encouraged to request information now and put their name in to ensure they lock in their spot for the classes. Debbie Krenz, from the Cost...

Source: Wikimedia Commons Earlier this week, the world took time to remember a major milestone of the Nuclear Age. Seventy years ago, the first atomic bomb was detonated at a site codenamed Trinity by scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory of the United States Department of Energy. Around the same time the 70th anniversary of the Trinity test was being observed, the U.S. and the I...

Seeds of Hope staff with the girls they rescue in Costa Rica For more than three years, a woman from the United States has provided advocacy and hope to young victims of sexual exploitation in Costa Rica. Penny Williams, a businesswoman from Southern California, was recently profiled in the Valley Roadrunner, a newspaper serving the community of Valley Center near San Diego. Ms. Williams' non-...

"Bumblebee October 2007-3a" by Alvesgaspar - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Washington, Jul 10 (EFE).- The populations of bumblebees in North America and Europe are collapsing due to their inability to adapt to climate change, which indicates that some animal life will be unable to change their habitats in order to survive, according to a study published in Science...

San Francisco, Jul 9 (EFE).- Latinos outnumber non-Hispanic whites in California, according to the most recent figures released by the Census Bureau showing that in July 2014 there were 15 million Hispanics in the state compared with 14.9 million non-Hispanic whites. Demographers expected Hispanics to become the largest ethnic group in the state in 2013, but a slower demographic growth rate tha...

NEW YORK, July 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Today BrainStation announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Origami Academy, a leading Latin American digital education institute, based in San Jose, Costa Rica. Founded in 2013, Origami Academy delivers unique and innovative programming and educational offerings spanning web and mobile development, user experience and user interface design....

Source: NASA Washington, Jul 7 (EFE).- The U.S. New Horizons space probe has provided the clearest and closest images to date of Pluto a week before it arrives at its historic rendezvous with the distant and largely unknown dwarf planet. The photographs, taken on July 1 and 3, are a foretaste of what scientists hope to see when the probe makes history on the 14th, passing just 12,500 km (7,...

Scriptapalooza The Scriptapalooza Fellowship program was developed to honor dedicated writers and to help accommodate their creative process and skills. Creativity has many interruptions; most of them legitimate reasons, such as dealing with life. Isolating yourself from all of your demands is not an easy task. "This new fellowship will give its recipient the opportunity to focus solely on his...

Pixabay Comons Institute of African Studies, Columbia University -- The second conference on "The Meaning of Blackness" will be held at the Universidad de Costa Rica on February 12-14, 2016. The conference follows on the first, successful, conference which was held in February 2014, whose proceedings are being published in Spanish and as an e-book by Universidad de Costa Rica Press and in Engl...

Wikimedia Commons University of California Los Angeles (Media Release) -- For 25 years, UCLA professor of anthropology Susan Perry has been climbing, crawling, slashing and sloshing her way through the Costa Rican dry forests of Lomas Barbudal in an unprecedented study of the capuchin monkey — a small, white-faced primate that populates large areas of Central America. Her Monkey Project is ...

National Museum of Costa Rica By Maria Jose Brenes San Jose, Jun 22 (EFE).- The San Jose Museum Walking Tour, which goes on for less than a kilometer (about half a mile) through the Costa Rican capital, reveals the sounds, origins, use and morphology of the musical instruments that sounded in pre-Columbian communities. Under the title "Ancestral Echoes," the Central Bank Museum of Costa ...

Solar power recharging station for electric vehicles in Costa Rica SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The prestigious EARTH University of Costa Rica and the German expert in capacity building Renewables Academy (RENAC) have launched the distance learning programme “Especialización en Energías Renovables”. This one-year interdisciplinary programme delivers knowledge about technology, all ph...

IsmaelCala.com SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, June 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Last Saturday in Costa Rica, the well-known TV host, inspirational author, and lecturer, Ismael Cala introduced his foundation, which bears his name. Its mission is to work with other institutions to promote leadership and vocational education for children and young people in Latin America as well as for latinos in the United S...

The magnificent Caral. Wikimedia Commons By David Blanco Bonilla Lima, Jun 11 (EFE).- Caral, the Americas' oldest civilization, located north of present day Lima, Peru, faced a grave crisis as a result of climate change some 4,000 years ago, archaeologists said. "Droughts were so severe that they could have lasted between 60 and 130 years, which could explain why there were social crises...

University of Costa Rica Campus Yesterday afternoon, pedestrians and motorists transiting near the main campus of the University of Costa Rica were surprised to see a nubile woman and two young men walking in the middle of a busy roadway, completely naked and carrying planters. As a result of this au naturel display, which took place at the same time rush hour was beginning in the capital c...

Jurassic footprints. Source: Wikimedia Commons London, Jun 10 (EFE).- British scientists have found possible blood cells and collagen in the fossilized remains of a dinosaur dating back 75 million years, the journal Nature Communications reported. Researchers found structures that might be red blood cells and other fibers similar to collagen in bones from the Cretaceous period, which lasted...

Playa Nosara, Guanacaste San Diego, California (PRWEB) June 12, 2015 -- The Frederick K. Swaniker Scholarship for Global Citizenship, formed in partnership with visionary African leader Fred Swaniker, has announced 18 inaugural recipients of the organizations’ signature award, which is designed to inspire the next generation of young leaders to propose solutions to global challenges and change...