Environment

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 ...

Work is progressing on the construction of 16 wave breakers off Pervolia and Oroklini in a push to tackle erosion that is affecting the entire coastline from Zygi to Pyla, the ...

Creative workshops for children as young as three as well as for adults are coming to the AG Leventis Gallery. The series of workshops titled Deconstruction are part of an ...

On the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science and in the interests of promoting Gender Equality in Research, The Cyprus Institute is organising an online ...

A new exhibition opening in Limassol this week presents the works of various artists. The Limassol Municipal Arts Centre – Apothikes Papadaki is hosting the group exhibition Stories of Intimacy curated ...

The Toulouse Declaration marks a new chapter in Europe’s journey towards net zero aviation by 2050, Hermes Airports said on Monday after joining fellow aviation stakeholders in endorsing the declaration. ...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis is in Strasbourg to attend the informal meeting of his EU counterparts which will on Monday and Tuesday focus on the goal of climate neutrality by 2050. ...

By Achilleas Demetriades Climate change is on our doorstep. There is an urgency to address this global concern and Cyprus cannot drag its feet on this any longer. No individual ...