Photo via Ylang Ylang Beach Resort. The ultimate tropical escape can be found with these stunning activities across Montezuma, Costa Rica. The tropical paradise of Costa Rica may feel like a very long ...

Explore Costa Rica’s South Pacific coast at Amaka Ocean Living Lodge, a serene eco-retreat on a tropical fjord offering the ...

This coastal Caribbean getaway is known for its vibrant Afro-Caribbean culture, stunning beaches and eco-tourism opportunities. Limón, Costa Rica has an amazing local music and food scene, and ...

Sean O'Donnell, PhD, is a professor of biodiversity, earth and environmental science and biology at Drexel University. His teaching interests span ecology, evolution and animal behavior, including ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Spilling 230-feet down the steep, foliage-covered walls of a lush biological reserve, La Fortuna is Costa Rica's most iconic waterfall. In a ...

A graceful humpback whale leaps from the calm blue surface of the waters of Golfo Dulce, a pristine tropical fjord near Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula. Its calf trails behind and disappears beneath the ...

It’s 8 p.m. on a dark and starry March evening at La Selva Research Station in Costa Rica. The air is warm and moist and smells like damp soil and vegetation. A group of fifteen students from the ...

Small farms with natural landscape features such as shade trees, hedgerows and tracts of intact forest provide a refuge for some tropical bird populations, according to an 18-year study in Costa Rica.

A recent study in Costa Rica by scientists at Princeton University-Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the University of Pennsylvania-Ecology & Biodiversity showed how agricultural ...

The relationship between forest succession and microfungal diversity has been poorly studied. Fungi provide important ecosystem services that may deteriorate in deforested or highly disturbed forests.

When I was young, I stood in a Costa Rican mountain cloud forest, desperately trying to find a resplendent quetzal with its dazzling plumage. Yet, a male bird had been perching in a tree 15 yards away ...