Today a journey along the Tortuguero Canal is one of Costa Rica's most rewarding journeys—thrilling, too, as your boatman canes your craft with the throttle wide open. *Bolded names and numbers ...

In short he makes daily choices that favor happiness, choices made easier because he lives among like-minded people in the verdant, temperate Central Valley of Costa Rica. Sidse Clemmensen is ...

This story appears in the March 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... temperature anomaly that was our destination. The Costa Rica Dome is an upwelling of cold, nutrient-rich water ...

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a boat off Costa Rica, a biologist uses pliers from a Swiss army knife to try to extract a plastic straw from a ...