Environment

Valuing and enhancing youth participation in climate activism in Cyprus By Olivia Skordi Climate change has a significant impact on the world’s youth. Rising temperatures, extreme weather events, habitat ...

By Willy Kurniawan Solikah, an Indonesian housewife living in the fishing village of Teluk, was in tears as she pointed to piles of trash strewn on a beach close to ...

Beleaguered Akamas National Forest Park road projects will restart in April, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Tuesday, adding they would “prioritise environmental preservation”. The decisions were made during a ...

A total of 50 ‘green kiosks’ will be installed in rural areas from Nicosia to Famagusta for 25 months to boost recycling efforts, the environment department announced on Tuesday. The department inked ...

The transport ministry on Friday announced the second phase of a grant subsiding the installation of 1,000 electric vehicle charging points within the framework of Cyprus’ Recovery and Resilience Plan. Applications ...

The House plenum on Thursday gave the nod to the 2024 budget of the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (Cyta), but not before MPs tussled about the direction and the past of the ...

The Osiou Avakoum monastery was implicated in an environmental scandal on Thursday, when it emerged the structure was built on land protected under the Natura 2000 environmental policy. The monastery has ...

The cabinet on Wednesday approved the creation of 1,000 charging stations for electric vehicles. The transport ministry is responsible for dealing with implementation of the project, which is intended to encourage ...

The European Commission has referred Cyprus to the EU Court of Justice (ECJ) due to its failure to fulfil obligations under the Habitats Directive, which aims to protect over a ...

As bad news on the bird trapping front made the headlines again recently, angry calls for nature lovers to “Boycott Cyprus!” flooded social media. Speaking as a veteran of the ...

By Renju Jose Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has been hit by a major coral bleaching event, with the results consistent with patterns of heat stress that have built up ...

By Ilze Filks Swedish police on Tuesday forcibly removed Greta Thunberg and other climate activists who were blocking the entrance to parliament for a second day, driving them away in ...

Microplastics, including bottle caps and a Halloween toy, were found in the stomachs of 135 loggerhead turtles washed up or killed on the shores of northern Cyprus, research showed on Tuesday. ...

Greta Thunberg and dozens of other environmental campaigners blocked the main entrances to Sweden’s parliament on Monday in a sit-down protest against the effects of climate change and what ...

Nobody likes taxes, not even politicians whenever they have to foist them on the public. But the announcement of the looming carbon or ‘green’ tax on motor fuel elicited a ...

A sum of a hundred trees were planted in Dasoudi, it was announced by the forestry department on Friday. The initiative was a collaborative effort involving the forestry department, Yermasogia ...

Approximately 435,000 birds, including migratory and threatened species, were illegally trapped and killed last autumn according to bird welfare organisations. The latest reports on bird trapping were found by BirdLife Cyprus, ...

By Nicolas Netien Cyprus faces a daunting challenge to meet the European Union’s waste management targets. The island nation sends a whopping 67 per cent of its municipal waste to ...

This winter was the hottest on record for Greece, according to data analysed by Greek scientists, threatening the viability of crops and raising fears of another summer of devastating wildfires. ...

By Gloria Dickie and Lisi Niesner One by one, the crate doors swing open and five Arctic foxes bound off into the snowy landscape. But in the wilds of southern ...

Concerns were raised on Tuesday about the state of the island’s dams and reservoirs, but the agriculture ministry said the situation is under control. The state of ten ageing ...

The head of the consumers’ association on Monday predicted that fuel prices will continue to rise significantly, squeezing the average householder, while others also expressed concerns over the effects of ...

Israel has agreed to revise the lyrics of its potential submission to the Eurovision Song Contest after the contest organizers took issue with verses that appeared to reference Hamas’ Oct. 7 ...

Environment Commissioner Antonia Theodosiou on Saturday called for “drastic lifestyle changes” to combat climate change. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), she said “not enough brave efforts are being ...