Archive for August 15th, 2007

Alajuela Coasts to Tie–and Quarterfinals

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

by Rod Hughes
Alajuela’s soccer club coasted painlessly into the quarterfinals of the Uncaf Champion?s Cup yesterday, by knocking out Isidro Matapán of Salvador with a scoreless tie. The “manudos,” as the Alajuela players are nicknamed, fairly well suffocated their rivals in Jorge El Calero Suarez.
The Costa Rican team will meet Real España of Honduras in […]

Local Wildlife Face Massive Extinctions

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

by Rod Hughes
The message is clear behind biologist Ana Fonseca’s analyses of the effects of global warming on Costa Rica, one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world:
Come visit before most of it disappears.
The University of Costa Rica scientist calculates that over the next 90 years, 160,000 species of plants and animals will go […]