Minister discusses climate initiative in Egypt
Cyprus will present its climate change initiative at a special event to be held on the sidelines of the UN climate change conference, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Wednesday.
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Europe facing its worst drought for 500 years – study
Europe is facing its worst drought in at least 500 years, with two-thirds of the continent in a state of alert or warning, reducing inland shipping, electricity production and the yields ...
Cyprus features in Nasa dust investigation map
The eastern Mediterranean, with Cyprus in the middle, is featured in an article describing the functions of Nasa’s new Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) instrument, which launched ...
US Senate approves bill to fight climate change, cut drug costs in win for Biden
The U.S. Senate on Sunday passed a sweeping $430 billion bill intended to fight climate change, lower drug prices and raise some corporate taxes, a major victory for President Joe ...
EU countries reach deal on climate laws after late-night talks
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 ...
Cyprus needs immediate action to combat the climate crisis
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, ...
Region’s sensitivities to climate change underline need for coordinated action plan
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 ...
Climate-friendly cuppa? Carbon footprint labels aim to steer green buying
Wave of schemes creates consumer confusion, greenwashing risk
By Carey Biron
Nutritional breakdowns, ethical trade branding, recycling information – and now estimates of a product’s climate impact.
Consumers across the ...
World could see 1.5C of warming in next five years, WMO reports
The world faces a 50 per cent chance of warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, if only briefly, by 2026, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Monday.
That does not ...
Dust levels remain high for sixth day
Dust levels remain high, with authorities issuing a new warning on Thursday urging the public and particularly vulnerable groups of the population to avoid going out.
Similar warnings have been ...
Removing carbon from air vital to reach climate goals, IPCC says
By Alister Doyle
Extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by planting forests and developing controversial high-tech industries will be essential to meet global goals to curb climate change, a UN ...
A green island turns red: Madagascans struggle through long drought
By Alkis Konstantidinis and Christophe Van Der Perre
With precious few trees left to slow the wind in this once fertile corner of southern Madagascar, red sand is blowing everywhere: ...
Climate goals take second place as EU states cut petrol prices
By Gavin Jones
A growing number of European countries are cutting fuel taxes to lower surging pump petrol prices. The move brings respite to motorists but environmentalists say it flies ...
Young climate activists call for political action
Primary and secondary school students have called on politicians to take immediate climate action “to be able to dream for the future”.
The new movement Generation KlimACT has published a ...
The power to save the planet is inside us all – how to get past despair to powerful action on climate change
By Thomas S. Bateman and Michael E Mann
Our species is in a race with climate change, and a lot of people want to know, “Can I really make a ...
Is the Amazon rainforest on the verge of collapse?
By Simon Willcock, Gregory Cooper and John Dearing
Sprawling 5.5 million square kilometres, the Amazon rainforest is the largest of its kind and home to about one in ten of all ...
Alaska worries about its salmon run
Climate change is warming Arctic waters
By Yereth Rosen
With marine heat waves helping to wipe out some of Alaska’s storied salmon runs in recent years, officials have resorted ...
UN climate report: ‘delay means death’
UN climate report urges immediate, drastic action
By Jake Spring, Andrea Januta and Gloria Dickie
Climate change is already disrupting billions of lives and humanity is not doing enough to ...
A new EU treaty to fight climate change
By Maria Demertzis
The Maastricht treaty, signed thirty years ago this year, committed European Union countries to the greatest step in integration they’d so far taken. It established European ...
Saudi Arabia turns to drought-surviving saxaul tree for climate defence
By Mohammed Benmansour
As drought ravages the Middle East, Saudi environmental activist Abdullah Abduljabar sees a silver lining for deserts: Saxaul trees produce seeds only as they become drier, opening ...
Anastasiades, Kerry discuss climate crisis and Cyprus problem
The climate crisis and developments in the Cyprus problem were at the focus of a meeting which Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades had on Friday with the US Special Presidential Envoy ...
World’s glaciers contain less ice than thought – report
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 ...
Don’t Look Up and don’t read this or other climate change mythologies
By Alexis Karkotis
Don’t Look Up, the new environmental-disaster political satire staring Leonardo Di Caprio and Jennifer Lawrence has been breaking records ever since its release on Netflix on ...
Plastics clampdown is key to climate change fight, EU environment chief says
Progressive reduction of fossil fuel-based plastics is crucial to tackling climate change, the EU‘s top environmental official said, ahead of a United Nations meeting to launch talks on a ...