Environment

Friends of the Earth Cyprus (FoECY) is taking part in an international effort to stop 30 EU-backed gas projects from moving forward. Protestors claim the EU Commission has given these climate-destructive ...

The Akamas development plan is gearing up to take centre stage amid allegations of backroom deals, electioneering and illegal procedures, while no one can agree anything: not even when the ...

A Cyprus project has been voted ‘Best Youth Initiative’ for Ocean Conservation in the EU4Ocean Awards. The Refill Cyprus project, created by Let’s Make Cyprus Green (LMCG), aims ...

The Federation of Environmental Organisations (Opok) said on Tuesday the intense lobbying from political parties and governmental organisations to speed up the implementation of the revised Akamas plan was a ...

The administration of the British Bases on Monday called on people to make use of the Akrotiri Environmental Education Centre to find out about the important environmental and cultural features ...

Cyprus, Greece, Israel and the USA on Tuesday held their first ministerial meeting on climate action, deciding to form a joint technical committee of experts to submit recommendations over a ...

Following pressure from environmental groups, officials have removed fishing nets from houses and farms in the Ayia Napa area that are deadly for snakes, hedgehogs, lizards, and other animals. In ...

Our region will experience climate change more intensely and sooner than other regions, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis reiterated on Tuesday as the island played host to a high-level international conference ...

Nicosia water board will save 120 tons of paper and €240,000 a year by billing consumers digitally, it said on Monday. The water board has been trying to eradicate paper bills sent ...

An ambitious programme to protect the Cyprus cedar has been awarded the EU’s LIFE Award in the nature protection category, a fitting accolade for a tree native to the ...

“Ninety per cent of ice flowing to the sea from the Antarctic ice sheet, and about half of that lost from Greenland, travels in narrow, fast ice streams measuring tens ...

Cyprus is promoting projects in excess of €1.3 billion for the protection of the environment, president Nicos Anastasiades said in a post on Twitter on the occasion of World Environment Day. “...

The green party urges people to ask the older generation about how much richer and healthier the natural environment used to be in light of the world environment day in ...

Proposals submitted by Cyprus and adopted by EU transport ministers will help cushion the blow from a transition to sustainable aviation fuels that could potentially cost the island a 20 per ...

Cyprus has all the tools to become a destination that respects the environment, Deputy Minister of Tourism Savvas Perdios said on Wednesday, adding that recent Eurostat statistics show that around 38 ...

A Sunday dedicated to fascinating prickly and colourful plants is coming up o0n Sunday as the 13th Annual Exhibition of Cacti and other Succulents arrives. Held at the same ...

The Akamas development plan is set for discussion at a joint meeting of the house environment and interior committees on June 8, following last week’s report that the plan could ...

Recycling of household waste could become a legal requirement if a proposal before the House Environment Committee on Wednesday is given the go-ahead. Committee chairman and president of the Greens ...

By Dr Elias Allayiotis Everything that we have comes from soil; the food that we eat, the things that we use every day, even our own body grows from nutrients ...

The PV Technology Laboratory of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and FOSS Research Centre for Sustainable Energy of the University of Cyprus, is participating in a transnational network ...

By Roberto Sciffo The evidence of ‘energy dependency’ becomes more acute when events, such as what is currently happening in the Ukraine, bring to light both the sensitivity of international ...

By Ann Borda, Andreea Molnar, Cristina Neesham and Prof Patty Kostkova When a new coronavirus emerged from nature in 2019, it changed the world. But Covid-19 won’t be the last ...

Bacteria in Antarctica have been discovered with genes that give them natural antibiotic and antimicrobial resistance and have the potential to spread out of the polar regions, according to scientists ...

One of the Bard’s most loved plays will be staged at an iconic location this summer to mark 60 years of Shakespeare at Curium As the sky shades from gold ...