Environment

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis warned on Wednesday that Ineia landowners were entitled to stage protests but not to engage in extreme behaviour or cause damage after the community leader threatened ...

Water levels on the Rhine river are very low because of unusually hot and dry weather, preventing many vessels from navigating the critical European shipping route fully loaded. Flowing from ...

By Hiroko Oe At the start of the 1600s, Japan’s rulers feared that Christianity – which had recently been introduced to the southern parts of the country by European missionaries – ...

We need better infrastructure, safer vehicles and education By Anastasia Korae A few weeks ago, the Cyprus parliament passed an amendment to the Bicycles Law making helmet wearing mandatory for ...

Cyprus recorded the fifth highest increase in greenhouse gas emissions among EU member states in the first quarter of 2022, according to a data published on Tuesday by Eurostat. According to ...

Corn plants near Paris are stunted and the soil of harvested wheat fields is bone dry, but on Eudes Coutte’s sorghum plot the leaves are green and the plants ...

Poison cannot be ruled out as the cause of a mass die-off of fish in the Oder river but tests so far have not proven toxic substances were to blame, ...

By Lucy Craymer The population of New Zealand’s kakapo, an endangered flightless parrot, has increased 25 per cent in the last year to 252 birds following a good breeding season and ...

Iole Damaskinos samples the Aphrodite family eco-camping site bordering the Akamas As a sustainability advocate, nature lover and avid fan of responsible backcountry camping, I was excited to hear about ...

The Communities in Action Initiative group, formed to combat the relocation of two asphalt factories to the area of Mitsero have welcomed views by University of Cyprus scientists that the ...

The forest department is calling on the public to avoid any actions over the next two days that might cause a fire. It appeals to the public to respect nature ...

Scientific experts on Friday called for the mitigation of the current major problem of polluting factories in Mitsero before the scheduled relocation of a Tseri asphalt plant to the area. ...

Thousands of Hungarians protested outside parliament on Friday against an easing of logging rules to meet increased demand for firewood as a result of surging gas and electricity prices. Prime ...

An Erasmus+ research project aiming to enhance water security and socio-economic development in the Eastern Mediterranean under climate change comes to an end this month. WaSec (Innovations in Water Education: ...

The Cyprus Institute has announced its role as a scientific coordinator in the Limassol municipality’s participation in an EU mission to become a climate-neutral and smart city by 2030. In ...

Dali Municipality said on Thursday that while it was adamant that two asphalt plants in the area need to be relocated elsewhere, in line with a cabinet decision, it does ...

As energy bills mount and the threat of rationing increases, some European retailers are turning off lights and considering shorter opening hours this winter. Energy bosses and government officials have ...

More than 2,000 sea turtle nests were located in Cyprus in 2021, Simos Demetropoulos, a biologist-environmentalist, told CNA. Demetropoulos and Italian Angela Mastrogiacomo, the biologists of the Mediterranean Turtle Research and Conservation ...

The Limassol Bishopric’s centre for environmental research and education (Kypkee) on Wednesday expressed its concern over the Akrotiri wetlands as a result of it not being drained and dry ...

The water development department on Wednesday urged consumers to conserve water as there is increased pressure on the system in some areas and it may cause problems. It said that ...

The endemic plants of the island make its flora incredibly unique By Johannes Rötzer Summer, 2018. This was the first time I had the chance to visit Cyprus and fall ...

The Enalia Physis Environmental Research Centre, a Cyprus-based NGO, in collaboration with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Monk Seal Alliance (MSA), have released an educational ...

The eastern Mediterranean, with Cyprus in the middle, is featured in an article describing the functions of Nasa’s new Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) instrument, which launched ...

By early next year the government will determine whether RES producers generated ‘windfall profits’ and – should that be the finding – tax those earnings, an official said on Monday. Giorgos Panteli, ...