#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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Climate change worsened weather extremes in 2021 By Lisa Shumaker and Andrea Januta Extreme weather events in 2021 shattered records around the globe. Hundreds died in storms and heatwaves. Farmers struggled with ...

By Natasha Gillies Not all relationships end in “happily ever after”, and birds are no exception. While more than 90% of bird species form monogamous couples, many of these will end ...

By Alicia Powell Director Adam McKay has assembled an all-star cast brimming with Oscar winners to give a humorous warning about climate change in new movie “Don’t Look Up”. ...

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japparov told the COP26 global climate summit this month that his Central Asian nation would achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 – but right now his government is urging citizens ...

The young are navigating conflicting visions of a utopian techno-digital future and a dystopia in which the earth’s landscape has been degraded beyond repair By Alexis Karkotis This is ...

The forestry department will distribute 60,000 trees to be planted to tackle climate change, it was announced on Friday. The move was part of the EU strategy for biodiversity which aims ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides This year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP 26) in Glasgow constitutes a crucial event for mankind. Despite the noticeable progress achieved in some areas, ...

I WOULD never have thought that the majority of we Cypriots are suppressed eco warriors deeply concerned about climate crisis and prepared to make big personal sacrifices to save the ...

Negotiators at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow are expected to lock horns on Friday for what is scheduled to be the final day of bargaining over how to ...

Crossbills, Black Pines and Troodos are intricately linked. COP26 must make sure it stays that way The give-away, as often, was the soft ‘pok’ sound made by a pinecone landing ...

By Alister Doyle An overarching goal for the COP26 UN summit of “keeping alive” a 1.5-degree Celsius limit on global warming is in jeopardy, with deep splits about what would ...

The coming decades will see a greater impact from climate change in Cyprus, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Monday, stressing the need for changes to the way water is ...

About 65 million years ago, before God created mankind, planet Earth was dominated by dinosaurs. Children love them as toys, but it is interesting in these climate change times to notice ...

A week since the start of the COP26 Climate summit in Glasgow, environmental NGOs organised two separate events on Saturday to draw attention to climate change, one in Nicosia and ...

By Tom Pugh Humanity injects an almost incomprehensible 42 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂) into the atmosphere every year. The majority of this comes from burning fossil fuels, but a ...

Cyprus will allocate more than €500 million by 2026 to policies to tackle climate change, President Nicos Anastasiades told the 26th UN Climate Conference (COP26) in Glasgow on Tuesday, as he pledged ...

Children and teenagers will participate in a peaceful protest to demand climate action this Saturday outside Paphos town hall. The demonstration is organised by the Cyprus conservation foundation Terra Cypria ...

More concern about next elections than worrying about next 30 years By Charles Ellinas There is a huge gap between what we need to do about climate change in the region ...