Environment

The world’s attention will be focused on Scotland for next month’s climate summit, Queen Elizabeth told Scottish lawmakers on Saturday, adding that they would have an important role ...

It’s almost time for the interactive three-day festival, Xarkis 2021 with parallel events and music performances on the agenda. The art installations found all over the festival grounds at Lympia ...

Returning to music halls and theatres after performing in the streets, the musicians of the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra are set to take the stage with a new concert series. Premiere 1 ...

Calling all creative, entrepreneurial women of the island, the Creative Women Platform Cyprus aims to bring powerful, passionate women together and create a community. As such, they are organising an ...

The summer may be ending, taking with it a buzzing cultural agenda and vibrant events yet this does not mark the end of festivals. Hopefully, we have a packed autumn ...

Savel’s Red Dress is a story about refugee children who have been forced to leave their homes and the people they love to find themselves in foreign places. A ...

The 11th edition of the International Short Film Festival of Cyprus (ISFFC) will kick off on October 9 and has a week packed with film screenings but also several parallel events. ...

When a holiday falls on a Friday, creating a long weekend it feels like the stars have aligned! And what better way to spend the three-day weekend and welcome October ...

Fishermen who once angled for rare pink river dolphins are working with researchers in Bolivia’s Amazon jungle in a high-tech bid to assure the species’ survival and better understand ...

The 12th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival returns to the Shoe Factory from October 8 featuring three distinct concerts alongside a number of other corresponding activities, such as lectures, workshops, and ...

By Roberto Sciffo In many cases it would seem that mankind is in control of the environment; we have shown the ability to excavate mountains, seed clouds to make it ...

Plan seen as a slippery slope to development in the protected area The government’s proposed Akamas national forest park (NFP) sustainable development plan may have got the green light ...

Indigenous activists delivered a Jatoba tree to Norway’s embassy in Brasilia on Tuesday, seeking “refugee” status for it in a symbolic protest against the destruction of Brazil’s Amazon ...

#BeActive. That’s the slogan of the European Week of Sports, when thousands of professionals and experts come together for one of the biggest sports initiatives of the world. Led ...

“The Ledra Palace Hotel,” say the organisers of an upcoming lecture, “served as architectural proof of the modern aspirations of the late colonial era. Its construction detailing proved technical capabilities; ...

Residents of mountainous areas are eligible for double subsidy in the state support schemes for renewable energy and energy conservation, the energy ministry announced on Tuesday, while calling on people ...

Cyprus ranks 23rd among the 27 EU member states as regards the use of recycled materials in their economies. According to Eurostat data on sustainable development goal 12 (SDG12) “Responsible consumption and ...

Xarkis Festival is a nomadic event that roams communities of Cyprus. Returning for its 8th edition, the festival and its residency will take place from October 10. The theme for this ...

Social Space Kaymakkin, a community space in the heart of old Kaimakli, is organising an evening of film screenings and discussions on Tuesday. Two Cypriot short films are on the ...

Talking about artistic practices is a look into an artist’s mind, creativity and thought process. An event by Dancehouse Lefkosia on Tuesday sees artist Lara Salmon present her practice ...

The long-delayed James Bond film No Time To Die will finally be unveiled this week and star Daniel Craig has said he hopes it will provide a shot in the ...

Connecting with others hasn’t been the easiest of things during the past year. Genuine human connection, in-person connection with friends or strangers has been difficult to figure out with ...

Nicosia Book Fest 2021 returns this autumn for a physical festival on October 9 and 10 at Acropolis Park. After last year’s first digital version, the annual festival is ready to return ...

Pollution. It’s a massive problem. And plastic pollution is visible on any beach or roadside on the island. Empty water bottles on the sand, plastic bags in the sea… ...