Today Tuvalu: tomorrow the world but escape hatches are closing
Some big changes arrive with a bang, but usually they sort of sneak in and you barely notice them at first. Last week’s big change saw the creation of ...
Ice age theme park opens in Larnaca’s Zouhouri square
An ice age-based theme park in Larnaca’s central Zuhuri Square opened its doors for the first time on Thursday.
The Larnaca municipality said the theme park will be in ...
Decarbonisation: Cyprus and Egypt face very different problems
Barriers to decarbonising the regional economies was one of the subjects covered at the ‘Climate Crisis in the East Med and the Middle East’ conference organised by Cyprus Institute in ...
Limassol awarded by EU for climate goals
Limassol was named on Tuesday as one of 23 cities to be awarded with the European Union’s Mission Label for its climate neutrality goals.
The European Commission said the label “...
2023 on track to become hottest year on record, says EU climate service
This year is on track to become the hottest since at least 1940, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday.
Scientists have said climate change, combined with ...
Massive environmental conference to be held in Limassol
The world’s community of environmental economists will flock to Cyprus this June, as Limassol welcomes one of the largest scientific conferences to have ever gathered on the island.
Held ...
Climate patterns on the island to be viewed across history
An ambitious science project aims to unravel the island’s climate, land reform and disease patterns across the past millennium.
European and Lebanese scientists in collaboration with the University of ...
As ocean heats up, we see how many unknowns there are
There is a fever raging in the ocean. Last month it was worst off the eastern coast of North America, where the sea surface temperature was as much as 13.8 degrees ...
Humanity’s tipping point? How the Queen’s death stole a climate warning’s thunder
By Darren Ray
Think back to September last year. What happened early that month? What news shook the world and reverberated for weeks, if not months?
That’s a question ...
Climate activists glue themselves to Berlinale’s red carpet
A man and a woman glued themselves to the red carpet at the opening of Berlin’s film festival on Thursday, calling on the German government and society to take ...
Cyprus prepares to launch regional climate change initiative at COP27
Cyprus is in the final stages of implementing a policy that aims to mitigate the emerging challenges of climate change on a regional level, which will be presented on the ...
This summer ‘nothing out of the ordinary’, says met office
While the rest of Europe has been experiencing unprecedented temperatures this year, some reaching record levels, Cyprus’ summer 2022 is nothing out of the ordinary and the island has not seen ...
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, ...
Our View: Who will pay price for reducing our carbon footprint?
Sometimes it’s hard to know if the pollsters in Brussels actually believe the things they hear from the people they survey in member states from time to time, or ...
Theopemptou: Cypriots will also become climate migrants one day
The green party urges people to ask the older generation about how much richer and healthier the natural environment used to be in light of the world environment day in ...
UN Climate Change Conference: time is running out
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, ...
Anastasiades, to Paris forum, calls for joint action on health and economy
President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday stressed the need for collective action to effectively improve economic conditions and the health sector with equal access for all to Covid vaccines.
In a ...
Most Cypriots favour higher taxes and Covid-style measures for climate – EIB poll
Some 67 per cent of Cypriots are in favour of stricter government measures tackling climate change, even if this would impose significant changes in people’s lifestyles “similar to those implemented ...
Urban Sustainability: Together for Our Cities!
AKTI Project and Research Centre, in collaboration with the British High Commission, and in partnership with KAYAD, is launching the urban sustainability project titled Together for Our Cities. The project ...
Cyprus Environmental Movement stages protest ahead of COP26
The Cyprus Environmental Movement will be staging a protest on October 30 in light of the 26th UN Climate Conference (COP26) which will begin in Glasgow the following day.
“Climate change ...
‘Green is good’ says UK’s Johnson, wooing Wall Street dollars
By William James
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced nearly 10 billion pounds ($13.72 billion) of private investment in green projects on Tuesday and courted the “trillions of the markets” in a ...
Cyprus and eight other EU Med states demand global climate action (Updated)
Leaders of the EU’s bloc of nine southern European members on Friday demanded urgent global action to combat a worsening climate crisis and build a sustainable future for the ...
Thunberg: ‘Massive public pressure’ needed to galvanize climate fight
Calling for “massive” pressure to fight climate change after Monday’s dire report by a U.N. science panel, activist Greta Thunberg said she plans to go to this year’...