YORKIN, Costa Rica, Sept 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - W ith erratic rainfall in Costa Rica playing havoc with her harvest, Maura Lupario reorganised her farm to ensure it could keep feeding her ...

In Costa Rica’s Los Santos region, famous for producing nearly half the country’s coffee, farmers are reeling from heavy losses driven by wild weather. Climate change is hitting hard, with an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this Feb. 8, 2020 photo, Deputy High Commissioner for the UN Refugee, UNHCR, Agency Kelly Clements, introduces herself during a ...

On a wet September morning in La Unión, a sparsely populated town in Costa Rica’s northeast, Rolando Álvarez and his two young sons directed their horses into the jungle. For the youngest son, Jean ...

Costa Rican coffee farmers were once blessed with abundant rains but as precipitation grows fickle they are being forced to innovate to keep producing one of the world's favorite brews. The country's ...

ALAJUELA PROVINCE, Costa Rica — In 1993, a representative from a U.S. company called Starbucks visited Rodrigo Vargas’ coffee farms in the highlands of central Costa Rica. Vargas remembers chatting ...

Costa Rican Flower farmers have started destroying lilies, roses and chrysanthemums they have lovingly tended for months after the coronavirus outbreak led to the suspension of flights to markets in ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

PIEDADES NORTE, Costa Rica (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Vinicio Chaves started working in the fields 30 years ago, he never thought of insuring his coffee farm against wild weather. Now he sees ...

With erratic rainfall in Costa Rica playing havoc with her harvest, Maura Lupario reorganized her farm to ensure it could keep feeding her family - including getting her husband to give up his ...