Environment

By Jake Spring Leaders of the eight Amazon rainforest countries gathered on Tuesday for the first time in 14 years, with plans to reach a broad agreement on issues from fighting ...

A protest by Vassiliko communities planned for Tuesday against the Pentakomo waste treatment plant (Oeda) was cancelled. According to an announcement from the nine communities living in the area, the ...

A major increase in solar power generation in southern Europe played a leading role in averting energy shortages during the heatwaves of recent weeks when temperatures broke records and drove ...

A new incentive plan for the installation of solar water heating systems in private homes came into effect on Monday, after it was approved by the Council of Ministers, in ...

A two-day Green Tourism festival will be held in the village of Ineia in Paphos, organised by the Paphos chamber of commerce and industry (Evep). According to an Evap announcement, ...

Water in Cyprus’ reservoirs stands at 58.5 per cent of capacity, considerably lower compared with the same time last year and will decrease further until October and November when the first ...

Households in Cyprus produce nearly 48,000 tonnes of food waste per year while businesses in the food sector generate about 110,000 tonnes of waste. The report on the social-economic impact of wastage ...

Even with the known risks to health and ecosystems, conventional agriculture is hooked on chemical pesticides Things are better than they used to be on the pesticides front. For example, ...

By Lisi Niesner and Sarah Marsh Just off the coast of Kiel in northern Germany, scuba divers use hand trowels to dig up emerald green seagrass shoots complete with roots ...

Unesco experts have recommended that Venice and its lagoon be added to its list of World Heritage in Danger as Italy is not doing enough to protect the city from ...

It only takes just a fraction of a second to suffer a pretty serious burn. Asphalt and concrete in direct sunlight can often reach surface temperatures as high as 82 Celsius (180 ...

Larnaca officials on Tuesday gave the government an ultimatum: either the Koshi landfill stays or the asphalt plant. Both cannot coexist in the same area. Refineries have left parts of ...

Cypriot youths have been invited to attend a two-day conference that centres on environmental and climate issues. The 2nd Local Youth Conference on Climate Change in Cyprus (LCOY Cyprus 2023) is ...

Agrivoltaics seem to offer the perfect solution to the problem of appropriating farmland for solar parks, but are they a nonstarter in Cyprus? As with everything energy-related, things are not ...

It is lagging far behind when it comes to environment and sustainability By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The growth of GDP as the main objective of macroeconomic policy is ...

A national energy plan aims to upgrade energy efficiency and production at public schools, with public consultations ongoing as the state aims for 25 near-zero emission schools. The education ministry reached ...

Environmental NGO BirdLife Cyprus on Friday hit back at comments made by the Animal Party suggesting the group had failed to save the Griffon vulture from extinction in Cyprus. “While ...

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday said Greece needed to take more steps to combat the effects of climate change as wildfires on the mainland burned farms and factories overnight ...

The Stavros tis Psokas station in the Paphos forest is to be powered by a generator and supply by the electricity authority (EAC) to the site is to be discontinued, ...

The Labour inspection department said on Thursday that air quality in the Pentakomo is “within legal limits” after carrying out inspections in Zygi and Mari. The figures are subjects to ...

Are you concerned about the growing crisis of plastic pollution and its impact on our planet? In today’s modern world, plastic has become an integral part of our lives, ...

Twelve-year-long efforts to prevent the extinction of the Griffon vulture from the island are failing, the Animal Party announced on Thursday. After the recent incident where the only remaining nest ...

Anecdotal evidence that numbers of loggerhead turtles increasing A team of biologists from the Mediterranean Turtle Research and Conservation Society with local youth volunteers are braving the heatwave to document ...

Italy’s southern island of Sicily has been devastated by wildfires that have killed three elderly people, its regional president said, as a heatwave and severe storms further north took ...