Environment

The fifth performance in Helen Kirwan’s new series of online events broadcast live to a global audience is coming this Friday. As an artist in residence with the Cyprus ...

By Kanupriya Kapoor Very little of today’s world resembles Planet Earth from 500 years ago. In fact, only about 3 per cent of land surfaces might be ecologically intact — still home ...

The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre this April inaugurates the first Residency Programme for Performing and Live Arts at Theatro Polis OPAP. The programme will present seven artists and artistic groups ...

The European Union clinched a deal in the early hours of Wednesday on a climate change law that commits the bloc to more than halving its net greenhouse gas emissions ...

Australian funnel-web spiders are among the most deadly arachnids in the world. But within the deadly cocktail of their venom, lies a potential pharmacy of drugs that could save your ...

“Life without art would be unbearable so if not now, when is the time to support the artists?” ask the team of Artistic Exploits, a brand-new platform that wishes to ...

The world over, governments are viewing the ocean as a new economic frontier By Maria Hadjimichael A consequence of the economic crisis and the realisation of the finite nature of ...

Annual event on April 22 is celebrated by a billion people in more than 190 countries By Annette Chrysostomou The theme of this year’s Earth Day, marked on Thursday, April 22, is ...

By Valerie Volcovici and Kate Abnett United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres wants the United States to commit this week to at least halving its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 — a ...

By Kate Holton and Elizabeth Piper Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Britain would cut carbon emissions by 78 per cent by 2035 in what he hailed as the world’s most ambitious ...

An upcoming event at Mason bar in Limassol will feature two elements; booze and brunch. What’s not to love? After months of wining and dining at home, many are ...

Ongoing exhibition Threading Stories features the handcrafted art processes of Latin America. Eleni Philippou has a look around Traditional handicrafts can serve to reflect a large part of a culture’...

In this video, we encounter an inspiring story of nature’s capacity to impart wisdom and renewal. Natural history filmmaker Craig Foster was burnt out and depressed when he decided ...

2020 was one of the three hottest years on record, marked by wildfires, droughts, floods and melting glaciers, a United Nations report said on Monday, prompting the U.N. Secretary-General to ...

Popular Greek singer Alkinoos Ioannides is making his return to the stage of Gazarte concert hall in Athens for a unique Livestreaming show, that will be broadcast in real-time all ...

As our world grows warmer, the increasing need to provide ourselves with cooler, more comfortable living and working spaces, is having a negative climate impact of its own. Existing cooling ...

Dance Ηouse Lefkosia’s new programme Artists in Process 2021 will take place this autumn and is now accepting applications from interested artists. Joining the programme this year will be choreographer ...

Environmental scientist Laura Garcia Velez cut her teeth on projects to help Ethiopian farmers insure crops for drought and connect remote Colombian communities to the electricity grid before working for ...

Cyprus Sustainable Tourism Initiative’s chairman outlines the importance of expanding the island product By Kyriacos Nicolaou Sustainable tourism has been a transformative force for the sector on the island ...

In this Ecosia-sponsored video, we meet Manuel, a retired, 66-year-old Spanish farmer, who is on a mission to restore the landscapes he grew up in. Having travelled all over the ...

Scores of people from Aradippou and Larnaca held a protest on Saturday against the planned relocation of an asphalt plant from Dali to the nearby Koshi area. The protest started ...

Do our social roles impact our life span? Bees, termites, and ants can teach us a lot about cooperation, communication and the skills that keep societies together. But these social ...

For its eighth consecutive year, the Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival will take place this autumn, between October 8 and 10 across the island, internationally and online. Multiple performances, works-in-progress and finished ...

Did you know that shark meat has been used as a substitute for cod? According to scientists and conservationists, it’s true. Illegal fishing, today, is actually a really big ...