Environment

Cyprus must fully embrace the ‘Fit for 55’ package, a set of proposals aimed at revising and updating laws within EU member states to bring policies in line with a of ...

Solar energy parks are sprouting up like mushrooms, House agriculture committee chair Yiannakis Gavriel said on Friday during a session on the issue after it emerged that 47 facilities had been ...

A total of 80 scientists from 23 different countries are set to descend on Paphos this weekend for the 2023 International Conference of Odonatology (IOC) – the study of dragonflies. The conference will see ...

Residents in Tala on Thursday are outraged over what they see as an inexplicable environmental crime committed in their community. According to local resident Spiros Stefanis the destruction started ten ...

The government moved on Wednesday to allow existing petrol stations to install electric vehicle charging points. The move, amending a pre-existing law regarding the construction of petrol stations, is aimed ...

The first of a kind Turtle Museum in Cyprus has opened its doors in the community of Inia, near Paphos, with the aim of becoming an important educational centre for ...

EU effort to bring in an ambitious plan to restore natural systems has taken a battering in Cyprus and elsewhere in the bloc Nature restoration makes total good sense. We ...

Outraged residents of Dali on Tuesday complained the planned hosting of the AfroBanana festival in the nearby forest will damage local wildlife. The Commission of Residents and Friends of Dali ...

By Gloria Dickie Glaciers in Asia’s Hindu Kush Himalaya could lose up to 75 per cent of their volume by century’s end due to global warming, causing both dangerous ...

By Ari Rabinovitch Building a school? Parking garage? Cowshed? Cover it in solar panels. Israel will soon require all new non-residential buildings to have rooftop solar panels to help it ...

By Kate Abnett European Union countries’ environment ministers struck a deal on Tuesday over a landmark bill to restore deteriorating natural habitats after watering down parts of the proposal and ...

The municipality of Geroskipou is set to head to the Supreme Court after a permit has been given for the construction of a hotel on church owned land within its ...

In a move aimed at fulfilling EU green obligations, the department of public works will upgrade seven government buildings at a total cost of €45 million by 2027, it announced on Tuesday. ...

Reports of the conversion of shepherds’ huts into holiday homes in the Akamas region have emerged, sparking outrage, although the mukhtar of Inia on Tuesday said he is fed-up of ...

Wind speeds and rainfall picked up on India’s Gujarat coast late on Thursday, officials said, after authorities there and in neighbouring Pakistan evacuated more than 180,000 people in the path ...

The world’s community of environmental economists will flock to Cyprus this June, as Limassol welcomes one of the largest scientific conferences to have ever gathered on the island. Held ...

Limassol municipality will consider all concerns before proceeding with the €6 million redevelopment of the Lady’s Mile road in the sensitive area of Akrotiri, the city’s mayor Nicos Nicolaides ...

Turkish Cypriot farmers in Karpasia are demanding a solution to the problem of free-roaming donkeys, which they say have spread far beyond their designated area and have become a crop-chomping ...

The Green Party on Wednesday raised the alarm over a large volume of sewage ending up at the Larnaca Salt Lake near the Hala Sultan Tekke mosque. “The sewage has ...

The latest art exhibition to hit Limassol’s cultural agenda has an environmental focus. City Friends Club in collaboration with the curatorial team ARTNOW organise the RE:SOURCE environmental art ...

Although they are boneless creatures, sea urchins are prickly enough to be feared by those who step on them. This past month though, off the Gulf of Aqaba, Tel Aviv ...

What is this new thing with the caps being attached to plastic bottles? By Natasa Ioannou Are tethered caps another way to inconvenience consumers or is there a reason behind ...

Dust levels in May were the worst for that month in the past five years, the latest readings by Care-C research center at the Cyprus Institute showed on Tuesday. The ...

By Gloria Dickie and Simon Jessop The number of fossil fuel companies setting net-zero emissions targets has risen sharply over the past year, but most fail to address key concerns, ...