Environment

The transition from horse to horsepower ushered in an infrastructural revolution that rippled through every part of society and made the modern world possible. A century later, we may be ...

The mean concentration of fine particles (PM2.5) in urban areas in Cyprus stands at 13.8 μg/m3, slightly above the EU average, according to a Eurostat report for the year 2019 published ...

Art Seen, a space in Nicosia for contemporary art projects, is hosting a new group exhibition this June featuring the work of 16 artists from Cyprus, Greece, France, the UK, Denmark ...

A cargo ship carrying tonnes of chemicals sank off Sri Lanka’s west coast, its navy said on Wednesday, and tonnes of plastic pellets have fouled the country’s rich ...

Welcome to some fascinating evolutionary genomics! In this video, we learn about the process of gene death and that it doesn’t always have to be bad – in fact, it ...

As the island’s music scene slowly gets restarted, Sarah’s Jazz Club – which has been shut for most of the past year – will finally open its doors again and ...

“I see a huge and growing gap between the rhetoric and the reality,” said Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency, two weeks ago, but he despaired a bit ...

By Alexandros Charalambides Over the past five years, there has been significant growth in entrepreneurship activities in Cyprus with networking events, entrepreneurship competitions, startup accelerators and angel financings forming the ...

Last week the Cyprus Mail quizzed the major political parties on a variety of environmental issues including illegal bird-trapping, ahead of last Sunday’s parliamentary elections. BirdLife Cyprus explains why ...

Nicosia Municipality has signed a €1.8m agreement with the Electricity Authority to replace 7,300 street lights with smart LED technology, expected to reduce energy consumption by more than 65 per cent. Signed ...

An exhibition featuring various types of lamp design at Yfantourgio The Workplace since late May will, after popular demand, remain open until Wednesday. The exhibition is part of the VAHA ...

By Cassandra Garrison Marine scientist Deborah Brosnan remembers “feeling like a visitor at an amazing party” on her diving trips to a bay near the Caribbean island of Saint Barthelemy ...

By Yesim Dikmen and Mehmet Emin Caliskan A thick, slimy layer of so-called “sea snot” is spreading in Turkey’s Sea of Marmara to the south of Istanbul, posing a ...

By Shadia Nasralla and Tom Hals A Dutch court’s decision to force Royal Dutch Shell to make deeper, faster cuts to its climate warming emissions on the basis of ...

An exhibition exploring the iconic Ledra Palace hotel in the capital’s buffer zone opened on Tuesday at the Leventis museum. Ledra Palace: Dancing on the Line has been co-organised ...

Live music is back and at Darcy’s Restaurant in Peyia with live bands and music ensembles taking the stage every week. Musicians from all around the island are performing ...

Renewable energy solutions may be helping us transition away from a global dependence on oil, yet they come with their own challenges and drawbacks – not least, in the realm of ...

Cyprus had the best quality bathing waters in the EU in 2020 after 112 coastal sites passed with flying colours, the European Environment Agency said on Tuesday. According to a report, all 112 ...

The agenda for June is filling up rather quickly on the west coast and in between live music from local bands come tribute shows, jazzy dinners and ballet performances. On ...

More film screenings are arriving in Nicosia as the latest edition of the Images & Views of Alternative Cinema Film Festival brings exactly as it suggests – experimental and alternative cinematographic ...

More classical music will reach Nicosia, Limassol and Paphos as the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra (CySO) plans more concerts this summer. A programme dedicated purely to music for wind instruments will ...

‘The Line’ is Saudi Arabia’s bold vision for the future of civilisation: an ultra-modern city designed to house one million people and be entirely pollution-free. But there’s one ...

Past-forward: Stavros Economou Unarchived is the first retrospective exhibition of the work of Stavros Economou, one of the most significant figures of modern architecture in Cyprus. The exhibition, curated by ...

The Paphos Sessions are continuing at the Hogshead Pub in June with more live music performances every Sunday afternoon. First to take the pub’s floor in June is the ...