Word: costa
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From Icelandic glacier outbursts to Costa Rican sea turtles, more than 60 international and domestic scientists emphasized taking a global perspective on environmental issues during the Earthwatch Institute's annual Festival of Science and Culture, held Saturday at the Science Center...
Frank V. Paladino, professor and chair of the department of biology at Indiana Purdue University, said that Earthwatch has been invaluable in his research of Costa Rican sea turtles, which he has studied for the past 20 years...
...What Earthwatch has let me do is keep a crew of students in Costa Rica for five consecutive years," Paladino said...
Paladino also said the ability to sustain research over a longer period of time has allowed his team to "work with Costa Ricans and teach them about sea turtles as well...
...placed great emphasis on poor societies that have achieved high standards in health and education. Costa Rica, for example, which has an average annual income that is only about one-fourth the U.S. level, boasts a life expectancy of 76 years--almost identical to the U.S.'s. Reason: Costa Rica disbanded its army in 1949 and focused public spending on basic health and education. Brazil, by contrast, has almost the same average income as Costa Rica, but a life expectancy that is 10 years lower. Brazil has greater social inequalities, and much of the population lives in deep poverty...