Costa Rica is a paradise for nature lovers, with its stunning landscapes and vibrant wildlife. While the country’s rich ...

In the rainforest of Costa Rica, a soil-dwelling fish with skin-covered eyes maneuvered through the mud. Its small size and underground lifestyle likely helped it go unnoticed — until now. When ...

The climate in lowland tropical rain forest is consistently warm and wet. Some say the “dry” season in the rainforest is when it rains every day, and the wet season is when it rains all day. We were ...

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 ...

Julianne Meany, a 16-year-old Girl Scout from Arlington and member of the Girl Scouts of the Nation’s Capital Council, completed Outward Bound Costa Rica’s Rainforest, River, and Reef Destination.

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.

I study the plants and animals that live up in forest canopies or the top of trees in tropical rainforests. Until about 30 years ago, this was an unknown world but it was very interesting for me.