Environment

By Nadia Radzman February 10 marked World Pulses Day. A day dedicated to celebrating beans and lentils doesn’t seem worth getting excited about – but it should be. Because there are ...

A new exhibition opening this week in Limassol brings together not only the artistic duo Eva and Belinda Papavasiliou but also several others from diverse backgrounds. Splayed, hosted at MeMeraki ...

A piano recital scheduled for Wednesday in Paphos with Tatiana Stupak and Andrey Pronin has changed its line-up after one of the musicians tested positive for Covid. Pianist Andrey was ...

The fire department in 2021 responded to a total of 12,333 calls for assistance, 7,383 of which concerned fires, 2,909 taking place in urban areas and 4,474 in the countryside. According to the annual report ...

For this year the state-run power corporation estimates it will spend €183 million on purchasing greenhouse gas emissions allowances, while the cost of fuel purchases is projected at €485 million. The numbers ...

Continuing its longstanding collaboration with the Keyboard Charitable Trust in London, the Pharos Arts Foundation presents a new musical evening in March with the fascinating Russian pianist Roman Kosyakov. March 2’...

Man’s best friend will soon be aiding efforts to protect Cyprus’ endangered Griffon vulture population thanks to a new initiative of an EU-funded programme to find and remove poison ...

Renewable energy accounted for 37.1 per cent of the total energy used for heating and cooling in Cyprus in 2020 – the ninth highest rate in the EU and up from 19.97 per cent ...

President Nicos Anastasiades discussed the government’s Climate Change Initiative and developments in the Cyprus problem at the ‘One Ocean’ international summit in Brest, France, on Friday. According to government ...

Language learning can be a thrilling journey, at times confusing at others fun. A whole rollercoaster of emotions come up when trying to understand the ins and outs of a ...

It may not be the season where you find pop-up bazaars and pop-up shops at every corner, yet two of them are happening in Limassol this Saturday. And perhaps the ...

Environmental NGO, Terra Cypria, has repeated its calls for the passage of a bill that will allow those who own land in Akamas to build elsewhere, saying this will protect ...

An artistic method that though well-known in the art world, is not one Cypriot art shows feature often will b the focus of an exhibition coming to the O Gallery. ...

Flower shops have started decorating their windows with red roses, balloon shops have set out heart-shaped designs and supermarkets are marketing wine and chocolate boxes. When the streets and the ...

Paphos municipality and Green Dot Cyprus have partnered up to encourage recycling and provide Paphos town and its suburbs with a ‘door to door’ environmentally clean municipal solid waste management ...

Cyprus is not doing enough to prevent the introduction and spread of invasive species, which are one of the five major causes of the loss of biodiversity in Europe, the ...

‘Performing Biography-The stand-up way’ is a method created and taught by Lia Haraki in a series of three independent workshops taking place over three long weekends in February, March and ...

Steni community council has placed five nesting boxes on trees to attract barn owls as part of the biological control of rodents. The artificial nests in the Paphos village were ...

By Shashi Kant Yadav The European Commission has decided that power plants burning natural gas can be considered generators of green energy. This means they can count as sustainable investments ...

Survival 199 workshops are series of events teaching essential survival skills in the mountains of Cyprus. The back-to-basics skills of foraging plants and making woven baskets are on the agenda this ...

Over the last two years, parliament has approved relaxations that mean the penalty for limesticking has been slashed to just €200 for up to 50 birds It is coming back, creeping into ...

By Gloria Dickie Advances in satellite technology have revealed that the world’s glaciers contain significantly less ice than previously thought, according to a study published in Nature Geoscience on ...

By Abdul Rahman Muchtar An elusive Indonesian crocodile, which has swum around with a motorcycle tyre stuck around its neck for six years, has finally been freed by an animal ...

Net-zero climate plans from top firms lack credible detail By Laurie Goering Many top corporations with ambitious “net-zero” emissions pledges to tackle climate change lack a clear plan to achieve ...