Environment

A “record-breaking” turtle weighing 90 kilograms was rescued by a team in Cyprus and taken to the Tashkent nature park in Vouno to undergo treatment, the park’s director Kemal Basat ...

The biggest reservoir on the Greek island of Naxos has dried up, useful only to the turtles that cruise its muddy shallows. Downstream, sea water has seeped into empty irrigation ...

They come in packs. They wear safety vests and cargo pants. Their tools are rakes, grabbers and heavy-duty garbage bags — the fuller the better. They are the environmental nonprofit City ...

The sand dunes of Chile’s Atacama desert, the driest on the planet, have been blanketed by white and purple blooms in recent days after early rains caused flowers to ...

Last month was the hottest June on record, the EU’s climate change monitoring service said on Monday, continuing a streak of exceptional temperatures that some scientists said puts 2024 on ...

The increasing threat of desertification in rural areas of Cyprus will be addressed through an ambitious five-year project focusing on decreasing soil organic carbon. The project, co-financed by the EU ...

Road construction works in the Akamas are set to resume in October but with a reduced environmental footprint, according to Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou. Speaking at the House environment committee ...

By Hongji Kim Under the light of a moon partially obscured by cloud, the eyes of a dozen deer glow uncannily in the dark on South Korea’s island of ...

By Stella Qiu and Lucy Craymer When floods hit the eastern Australian town of Lismore two years ago, Adam Bailey lost all the historic collections from his antique store, including ...

By Jack Graham As Britain’s general election nears, the campaign trail has been dominated by issues such as immigration, the health service and a major insider betting scandal. But ...

The presidential palace received zero waste to landfill’ certification on Tuesday, becoming the island’s first government building to hit the target. The certification was presented during a ceremony in ...

The Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (Cyta) is a pioneer in green practices having been awarded the Zero Waste to Landfill certificate for the eighth year running, it announced on Tuesday. In 2023, ...

Youth of Ecologists, Ecological Movement of Cyprus, Centre for Social Innovation, and RESET-Research and Education in Social Empowerment and Transformation are co-organising once again this year’s established nationwide beach ...

By Anastasia Korae  The Paris Olympic Games are approaching with world records expected to be broken by elite athletes. A number of other positive records are also expected to be ...

By Isabelle Yr Carlsson Denmark, a major pork and dairy exporter, will introduce a tax on livestock carbon dioxide emissions from 2030, making it the first country to do so and ...

By Sybille de La Hamaide and Michael Hogan A heatwave due to spread throughout Europe this week is set to take a heavy toll on summer crops in the southeast ...

By Jake Spring Setting aside an additional 1.2 per cent of the world’s land as nature preserves would prevent the majority of predicted plant and animal extinctions and cost about $263 ...

Environmentalists this week breathed a sigh of relief at the decision that the building of a long line of breakwaters along the north Paphos coastline has been decisively deemed a ...

Deadly heatwaves are scorching cities on four continents as the Northern Hemisphere marks the first day of summer, a sign that climate change may again help to fuel record-breaking heat ...

By Greg Muttitt, UCL; Fergus Green, UCL, and Steve Pye, UCL North Sea oil and gas has become a battleground issue in the UK general election. The Labour party’s ...

The Eco School and Blue School accredited PASCAL Private Secondary School and PASCAL Private Greek School have launched a project called reBLUE, aiming to promote students’ awareness of the circular ...

By Anna Klindukhova Items that can be recycled in Cyprus include PMD, which includes plastic, metal and drink cartons, paper and cardboard, glass, textiles, shoes, bags, electronics, garden waste, e-cigarettes, ...

By Gloria Dickie and Alison Withers The conflict in Gaza has created unprecedented soil, water and air pollution in the region, destroying sanitation systems and leaving tons of debris from ...

European Union countries approved a flagship policy to restore damaged nature on Monday, after months of delay, making it the first green law to pass since European Parliament elections this ...