Environment

The effects of human activity from climate change to pollution are “devastating” marine life, with nearly a tenth of underwater plants and animals assessed so far threatened with extinction, the ...

New schemes providing incentives for the purchase of electric vehicles are expected to be announced within the next two weeks, the transport ministry said. About 2,500 applications will be approved as ...

A programme that collects used cooking oil from households to convert it into biodiesel re-launched on Thursday after five years of inactivity. The mobile unit of environmental education by Akti ...

It looked like a cross between a crocodile and a salamander – and definitely was not an animal to be messed with. Long before the dinosaurs or even the advent of ...

Working at an environmental non-governmental organisation By Konstantinos Perikleous Terra Cypria – the Cyprus Conservation Foundation, is a non-governmental non-profit organisation (NGO), officially established in 1992 as a charitable trust. Its overall ...

The European Union agreed on Tuesday on a new law to prevent companies from selling into the EU market coffee, beef, soy and other commodities linked to deforestation around the ...

Trade unions representing workers at the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) delivered a searing critique of the government on Tuesday, asserting that some of the state’s energy policies make ...

Cyprus is determined to have a smooth transition into a green and digital economy Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Tuesday. Visiting Strovolos’ centre for green and digital entrepreneurship, Kadis ...

The lava flowing from Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, which is the world’s largest active volcano and erupted this week, is edging closer to the Big Island’s main highway. ...

Chemical use to deal with rodents has been reduced by half since 2020, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Friday, saying that they are promoting more ecologically friendly ways to deal ...

Marinos Papageorgiou’s November 16th article “Environmental education: A necessary tool” is spot-on. If we do not engage and educate the next generation about environmental challenges and give them tools ...

By Guy Shorrock Every year an estimated 25 million birds are illegally killed around the Mediterranean. Cyprus has been assessed as one of the five worst countries with, until very recently, ...

Food waste is one of the most important challenges facing society today, which has a profound impact on both the environment and on the economy, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said ...

The management of last summer’s fires in Cyprus proved to be one of the most successful ever, according to Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency ...

Free saplings were given to locals in Nicosia by the Forestry Department on Sunday as part of Tree Week, which is set to run from today until December 3. Speaking at ...

The Tree Festival, which takes place each year on the fourth Sunday in November in Cyprus, has been celebrated on the island since 1920, the forestry department reported, in its announcement ...

Environmental NGO Friends of the Earth has called on people to consider the costs to the environment in making purchases on Black Friday weekend. Surveys have shown that huge numbers ...

A three-day conference aiming to explore the conservation, management and governance of protected areas and its application in the Akamas peninsula began on Wednesday. Some of the core themes being ...

By Daniel Trotta A US agency seeking to restore habitat for endangered fish gave final approval on Thursday to decommission four dams straddling the California-Oregon border, the largest dam removal ...

And companies need to do more about packaging By Charalampos Theopemptou Among the business world, I often hear the discussions and worries about the new Environment, Sustainability, Governance (ESG) criteria ...

By Jake Spring and Shadia Nasralla Beyond the headlines from the annual UN climate conference, progress in advancing the global climate agenda relies on the behind-the-scenes efforts of technocrats over ...

By Clark Mindock Climate change-related litigation has more than doubled in the past seven years globally according to a June report by the London School of Economics, and is moving ...

Cyprus’ environmental policies must go beyond the buffer zone and the jurisdiction of the British bases, said presidential candidate Achilleas Demetriades this week, sharing his vision for a “One and ...

The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s 35-nation Board of Governors on Thursday passed its third resolution since the outbreak of war in Ukraine calling on Russia to end all actions ...