(etrubonews) Since the opening of the first six rooms of its luxury hotel in February, the new private island resort on Isla Palenque, in Panama, has received glowing reviews and sold out its exclusive Founders Club for vacation homeowners in just 10 weeks. The master-planned resort community provides guests and future residents a unique private island experience through … [Read more...]
Genetically Modified Salmon from Panama could be approved for US
(Guardian) It is hard to think of a more unlikely setting for genetic experimentation or for raising salmon: a rundown shed at a secretive location in the Panamanian rainforest miles inland and 1,500m above sea level. But the facility, which is owned by an American company AquaBounty Technologies, stands on the verge of delivering the first genetically modified food animal – … [Read more...]
Fossils found during Panama Canal expansion
(Ottawa Citizen) U.S. and Panamanian paleontologists have discovered fossils of several species that lived in Panama more than 20 million years ago. Click here for photos of the fossils Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute paleontologist Bruce MacFadden says in a statement the discovery will help to better understand the biodiversity and geological formation of the … [Read more...]
Panama Canal Getting Bigger
(Skytruth) A man, a plan, a canal. Panama! It's not just a quaint anagram. In this age of relentlessly expanding global commerce, Panama has been planning ahead, and is investing billions of dollars in supersizing the canal (photo gallery here) to allow the passage of the new breed of supersized cargo ships. Even more coal mined from Appalachian mountains and … [Read more...]
Boquete: The cutest town in Panama
(Tico Times) The backyard at Refugio del Río, a Boquete hostel on prime riverfront property. Call me spoiled, but sometimes living in Costa Rica, I get sick of the same beautiful beaches, the same incredible volcanoes and the same wildlife-ridden jungles. No one back home in the U.S. will summon even an ounce of sympathy for overfamiliarity with paradise, but seriously, … [Read more...]