Environment

President Nicos Anastasiades and Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis unveiled a long-awaited €97 million support plan for the agricultural sector in Cyprus on Wednesday. The plan, which concerns the years 2021 and 2022, contains ...

Environment Commissioner Klelia Vassiliou on Wednesday visited Polemi in Paphos to check out this year’s tulip blooms. Vassiliou was given a tour of the tulip fields by the community ...

In this video, we meet astronomer Emily Levesque, who studies the moment of mystery when a star dies – that millisecond when its bright light explodes into a supernova, or collapses ...

By Sarah Marsh During some summers, as the Caribbean water temperatures climb, the luminous coral colonies of gold, green and blue that ring the island nation of Cuba give way ...

Within the framework of the Larnaca Municipality Festival of Classical Music, the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra (CySO) will stage a concert in Larnaca and Nicosia this month. Three works drawn from ...

Paphos environmentalists are pushing for the creation of green spots to serve village communities, as illegal dumping is way out of hand. “Making green spots where people can take their ...

Save Your Hood is seeking to overcome years of neglect and clean up Cyprus By Melina Alexandrou The shift towards greater awareness about environmental change, the overfishing of our oceans ...

At least 135 million birds are currently at risk of lead poisoning throughout the EU Consultations are underway in view of EU moves to restrict the use of lead in ammunition ...

But it comes with both risk and opportunities for business By Antigoni Pafitis In the past few years there has been a great deal of interest in the concept of ‘...

In an upcoming exhibition in Limassol, artist Mostafa Sarabi pays close attention to his dreams and translates them into paintings. Sarabi’s A Stranger in the Island exhibition opens at ...

Japan will release more than 1 million tonnes of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, the government said on Tuesday, a move China called “extremely irresponsible”, ...

Environmental NGO Friends of the Earth Cyprus announced on Monday a survey on drinking water consumption in Cyprus. The survey aims to collect information on the habits and perceptions people ...

By Kate Abnett A majority of residents of European cities support a Europe-wide phaseout of combustion engine car sales from 2030 to reduce planet-warming emissions, a YouGov poll conducted on behalf ...

By Jake Spring Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest declined in the first quarter, preliminary government data showed, but the drop may be due mostly to more intense cloud cover ...

Having a place to create, find resources and tools and experiment is crucial for developing an artistic practice. The MGA Makerspace, part of the Cyprus University of Technology, is such ...

In this video we learn about the latest edition of the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF’s) One Planet City Challenge (OPCC). In 2011, WWF launched the OPCC competition in order ...

The upcoming exhibition Foam Born is the result of a three-week artist residency of artistic duo Peles Empire at eins gallery in Limassol, where artists Barbara Wolff and Katharina Stö...

Having resumed their programme of events, the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra (CySO) brings another concert to the island’s theatres. Conducted by renowned German maestro Wolfram Christ, Spirit of Romanticism will ...

There’s not much dancing taking place these days, not at bars nor at parties that can’t happen. Our dose of the dance world is limited to the few ...

Ruling party Disy on Monday donated mastic trees to the forestry department to be distributed to first grade primary school students nationwide. As part of the one million trees initiative ...

A wasp’s nest is a complex structure that is a specialised nursery for all aerial-nest-building wasp species. The nests are easily identifiable – most of us will have seen them ...

Waste in Aglandjia has been reduced by 41 per cent with scheme The nationwide pay-as-you-throw scheme is due to be announced later this month but is already running in Aglandjia municipality, ...

Around 1,000 people took part in a demonstration on Sunday against the move of an asphalt plant to the Mitsero area, saying they wan clean air and an environment without pollution ...

Lithium-ion batteries have led to Electric Vehicles that enable us to drive around without burning fossil fuels. But how green are these batteries actually? And where do they end up ...