Environment

Deforestation in Colombia edged up for the second year in a row in 2021, rising 1.5 per cent versus 2020 levels, the environment ministry said on Friday, taking the government further away from ...

Hundreds more people were evacuated from their homes as wildfires blistered land in France, Spain and Portugal on Friday, and officials in Europe issued health warnings for the heatwave in ...

By Victoras Pallikaras As the world’s capacity to deal with the fast-rising supply of disposable plastic goods becomes overwhelmed, plastic pollution has emerged as one of the most urgent ...

Moscow’s war in Ukraine must not sideline European Union efforts to cut carbon emissions even as the continent is forced to turn back to coal to cope with reduced ...

AfroBanana is encouraging deeper critical thinking on sustainability and environment By Bank of Cyprus and AfroBanana Festival, partners in sustainability In 1983, the United Nations established the World Commission on Environment ...

Years of unplanned building without the necessary infrastructure has led to wastewater runoff polluting underground reservoirs and the sea in Trikomo, Turkish Cypriot newspaper Yeniduzen reported on Sunday. President of ...

Fully solar powered AC does exist, but it’s pricey Consumers are facing a dual shock: soaring electricity bills and sweltering temperatures, both of which are only set to rise. ...

An upcoming workshop at CyHerbia Botanical Park will show the ins and outs of fermenting nature’s goods. Led by food anthropologist Eleni Michael, Sunday’s afternoon workshop will use ...

The House on Thursday passed regulations relating to the management of municipal waste, including for the ‘pay-as-you-throw’ scheme. The pay-as-you-throw scheme, and the related obligations of all municipal authorities, will ...

Cabinet on Wednesday approved an additional €350,000 to subsidise the installation or replacement of solar water heaters amid a surge in demand for cheaper, green energy. The initial incentives scheme for €600,000 ...

The Mall of Cyprus recently launched Better Together, a set of initiatives focusing on ESG causes and experiences, taking a step closer to a brighter future for all. The programme ...

The regulation actually goes beyond halting biodiversity loss to push for ecosystem restoration, for ‘bringing nature back’ At first sight the positive tone of this column may seem rather out ...

A from the bottom up festival in a quiet Nicosia area invites the public to get to know the island’s past and present heritage in a series of interactive ...

The first ever recorded sighting of the African desert warbler in Cyprus has been confirmed as the unexpected visitor from the Sahara made its way to the Akrotiri Peninsula. “This ...

Cyprus should implement firmer and more transparent means of protecting public health as it moves ahead with its gas exploitation programme, according to a study by the Cyprus University of ...

Have you ever dreamed of what the world around us would be like in 30 years’ time? As things stand, logic dictates that our planet will be facing a worse fate ...

What’s better than a classic 1971 VW Beetle? Well, the students at the first technical school of Nicosia have proved that it may be an electric Beetle. The teenagers have ...

Measures must be taken immediately to tackle the pollution caused by EAC substations in Dhekelia and Vasiliko, the House environment committee heard on Wednesday. Deputy committee chair Nicos Kettiros said ...

EU countries clinched deals on proposed laws to combat climate change early Wednesday, backing a 2035 phase-out of new fossil fuel car sales and a multi-billion-euro fund to shield poorer citizens ...

Every ton of emissions matters: It is so important even for countries as small as ours to do our bit By Orestis Karghotis The climate crisis is a global, human-caused, ...

Cyprus supports the creation of a common platform for the supply of natural gas, as well as the EU providing financial support for innovative green technologies to mainly address the ...

We are just two weeks away from the 11th anniversary of the one of the biggest environmental and human tragedies to hit Cyprus since 1974 and the 2005 Helios air crash, and ...

A tornado in the south of the Netherlands has killed one person and injured at least 10 others, regional emergency services officials said on Monday. “That is the current situation,” Zeeland ...

Given recent reports from the public about turtle sightings in shallow waters around the coast, the fisheries department said on Monday it was normal and no reason for concern. “During ...