In the heart of southern Lebanon, where pine trees once stood tall and abundant, a quiet crisis is unfolding. The cones are barren, the trees are drying and a forest ...
A new cross-border programme, “Inclusive Routes,” has been launched in cooperation with Greece to improve accessibility in forest recreation areas, cultural heritage sites and tourist destinations, the forestry department announced ...
As leaders gather for the U.N. climate summit in Brazil this week – three decades after the world’s first annual climate conference – the data charting progress in the fight ...
Cyprus’ success in managing scarce water resources could serve as an example for the rest of Europe, the executive director of the European Environment Agency (EEA) Leena Yla-Mononen said on ...
Efforts to resolve Cyprus continuous water scarcity problem will focus primarily on increasing the available amount of portable water by installing further desalination units, agriculture ministry secretary Andreas Gregoriou said ...
EU climate ministers agreed a 2040 climate change target in the early hours of Wednesday after watering down the goal in last-minute negotiations, as they raced to clinch the deal before ...
Over 3,700 volunteers from 425 locations worldwide worked together to collect more than 20 tonnes of trash in September, as part of #Potavristou, a Cyprus led campaign organised by AKTI project and research ...
By Efi Xanthou
On October 24 the forestry department felled a big number of eucalyptus and pine trees without warning anybody at the Akademias park in Aglandjia. They just barged in ...
More than one third of the agriculture ministry’s budget for 2026 will be spent on water development projects, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Monday, presenting it to the House ...
With expectations for a fourth winter of drought ahead and the island’s dams at very low capacity, the agriculture ministry said this week it is examining using cloud seeding ...
Police and the game and fauna service have confiscated several poached animals, including the head of a wild mouflon, during coordinated searches in homes, premises and vehicles across the Morphou ...
A total of nine villages in the Larnaca district are set to receive ‘Green Kiosks’ – small sorting centres for recyclable materials configured in modified shipping containers – the Larnaca district government ...
The annual coastal bird survey took place on the British bases area (SBA) coastline on September 22 and October 17, recording a total of 392 Eleonora’s Falcons, it was announced on Thursday.
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A clean-up campaign took place in the Ayia Thekla area, organised by the Famagusta fire brigade as part of the nationwide Let’s Do It Cyprus initiative, Ayia Napa municipality ...
The future of Akrotiri’s vital salt lake over the next 25 years was the focus of a recent workshop planning on protecting it and the peninsula as a whole, the ...
President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday night called for the European Union’s climate goals to “be more realistic” after the conclusion of the day’s European Council meeting.
“Many member ...
DESIGN EQUALITY is the seventh installment in BE OPEN’s long-running series of global competitions inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Initiated by the socio-cultural platform BE ...
The British bases announced on Wednesday that revealed anti-bird trapping operations have continued at pace despite the ambelopoulia migration season ending this month.
Specialist officers from the community action team (...
The protection of the environment is emerging as one of the most significant issues of modern law. The Council of Europe, through the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, has ...
A fourth batch of vultures that arrived in Cyprus from Spain in February were released into the wild late on Thursday as part of efforts to strengthen their population, BirdLife ...
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have reached the highest ever recorded, potentially further warming the planet and leading to more extreme climate events, a new report by the World ...
Restorations to traditional dry-stone walls damaged in the fire that swept through Limassol’s mountain region in July have begun, the Laona Foundation said on Wednesday as it aims to ...
Limassol is set to introduce a new multifunctional park in Iachou Street, next to Spyrou Kyprianou Avenue on Wednesday evening, October 15, an initiative that aims to reshape urban space into ...