Posts tagged with "Environment"

Audit office calls for new strategy for sustainable mining Cyprus

Audit office calls for new strategy for sustainable mining

March 18th, 2019899 Long delays and lack of coordination between the relevant departments have been identified by the Audit Office, which is proposing a new Strategy for Sustainable Mining and Quarrying Development in Cyprus. In a summary of findings and suggestions from a management audit of the Department of Town Planning and Housing, the Department...
Metres of Larnaca beaches have been lost to erosion Cyprus

Metres of Larnaca beaches have been lost to erosion

March 14th, 20192091   Beach erosion in the Larnaca district has become extremely serious, especially in Pervolia and Voroklini where 23 metres of beach has been lost over the past few years, the Larnaca tourism board (Etap) said on Thursday. Etap has called on the communications and works minister for urgent help in building breakwaters in an...
Lefka says Greek Cypriot mine is contaminating water Cyprus

Lefka says Greek Cypriot mine is contaminating water

March 13th, 20191755 Turkish Cypriot environmentalists have asked for UN assistance over what they say is the contamination of water in the north caused by copper mine waste from the south, reports said on Wednesday. According to Turkish Cypriot media, the association of environment and promotion of Lefka has sent a letter to UN Special Representative...
Kornos residents pledge to fight asphalt plant in area Cyprus

Kornos residents pledge to fight asphalt plant in area

February 13th, 20191152 Residents of the Pyrga and Kornos warned MPs on Wednesday that they would take legal measures if a building permit is given to operate an asphalt producing plant in their area. Discussion of the impact of the plant on residents’ health continued at the House environment committee for the second time. Outside parliament, residents,...
First-ever Akrotiri ‘BioBlitz’ taking place this month Cyprus

First-ever Akrotiri ‘BioBlitz’ taking place this month

February 12th, 20192300   Ths month, Alien CSI Action is organising an Akrotiri BioBlitz in Cyprus for the first time in the Akrotiri wetland, famous biodiversity hotspot threatened by invasive alien species. According to an announcement, 14,000 alien or non-native species have been introduced deliberately or accidentally by people to...
Environment minsters visit Oroklini lake Cyprus

Environment minsters visit Oroklini lake

February 8th, 20191445 Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis visited the Oroklini lake on Friday accompanied by Greece’s deputy minister of environment and energy, Sokratis Famellos. Oroklini lake is part of the protected Natura 2000 areas of the island. Kadis and Famellos enjoyed bird watching from the lake’s observatory, and were then briefed by...
Kornos residents protest plans for asphalt unit Cyprus

Kornos residents protest plans for asphalt unit

February 6th, 20191423 Residents of the Kornos and Pyrga area outside Nicosia, including monks from Stavrovouni monastery, held a peaceful protest outside parliament on Wednesday against the installation of an asphalt recycling and producing unit. House environment committee chairman Adamos Adamou said the studies conducted appeared to ignore nearby...
Technology can help us remain environment-friendly carnivores CM Regular Columnist

Technology can help us remain environment-friendly carnivores

January 27th, 20192768 By Gwynne Dyer   “Right now, growing cells as meat instead of animals is a very expensive process,” said Yaakov Nahmias, founder and chief scientist of Israel-based startup Future Meat Technologies. But it will get cheaper, and it probably will be needed. Global population is heading for 10 billion by 2050. (Current...
China to crack down on diesel trucks, raise fuel standards Asia

China to crack down on diesel trucks, raise fuel standards

January 5th, 20191196 China will take action against highly-polluting diesel trucks by imposing tougher fuel and engine standards, raising rail freight volumes and strengthening its monitoring capabilities, new guidelines published by the environment ministry said. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment said in a policy document on Friday it would aim to...
Japan to withdraw from International Whaling Commission Oceania

Japan to withdraw from International Whaling Commission

December 26th, 20181915 By Kaori Kaneko TOKYO, Dec 26 (Reuters) - Japan will withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and resume commercial whaling from July, it said on Wednesday, abandoning a decades-old campaign to persuade the commission to allow it to hunt whales commercially. The announcement drew criticism from anti-whaling groups...
Volunteers worried about marine pollution Cyprus

Volunteers worried about marine pollution

December 23rd, 20181606 ALL PEOPLE who took part in a survey on marine litter, especially plastic, said they were worried about garbage in the sea. Some 52 per cent of coastal businesses and 76 per cent of volunteers who participated in clean-ups of beaches during the summer said it was a major concern. The research, carried out by research centre Akti,...
‘Say no to plastic straws’ TV spot launched  Cyprus

‘Say no to plastic straws’ TV spot launched 

December 6th, 20181469 A TV spot for the campaign ‘Cyprus says no to plastic straws’ featuring ‘Salina the flamingo’ was launched on Thursday. The flamingo stands for the animals threatened by the use of plastic drinking straws, which the pupils of special school Ayios Spiridonas in Larnaca aim to save. Ayios Spyridonas is at the forefront of the...
Australian kids walk out of school to protest climate inaction Oceania

Australian kids walk out of school to protest climate inaction

November 30th, 20181934 Thousands of children walked out of school across Australia on Friday in protest against government inaction on climate change, prompting a rebuke from a minister who said they were setting themselves up for "failure". Children, parents and teachers gathered in Sydney's central business district in the lunch hour, chanting "ScoMo's...
Cyprus climbs on global prosperity index Cyprus

Cyprus climbs on global prosperity index

November 30th, 20182187 Cyprus ranked 28 out of 149 countries in a global prosperity index conducted by London-based Legatum Institute, performing best on personal freedom and safety and security, and lowest on the natural environment and education pillars. Cyprus climbed one position from 29 to 28 when compared with 2017 in its overall prosperity score, a...
Children behind push to end use of straws in Larnaca area Cyprus

Children behind push to end use of straws in Larnaca area

November 30th, 2018958 More than 2,000 multi-use straws were on Thursday bought by people as part of the campaign by children at the special school Ayios Spyridonas to put an end to the use of plastic drinking straws in Larnaca. The initiative by the pupils intends to replace the conventional plastic straws in the area with biodegradable and multi-use ones...
Nearly 80 per cent of rubbish still being dumped in landfills Cyprus

Nearly 80 per cent of rubbish still being dumped in landfills

November 22nd, 20182187 Cyprus ranked second in per capita production of municipal solid waste among EU member states in 2016 while nearly 80 per cent of rubbish is still dumped in landfills, the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) reported on Wednesday. In the latest available EU data, which go up to 2016, per capita production of municipal solid waste reached 642kg...
Delivering results on clean energy Guest Columnist

Delivering results on clean energy

November 20th, 20181475 By Miguel Arias Canete THE transition towards a low-carbon economy, as we tackle climate change, is one of the biggest opportunities of our time. As Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy, my aim is to accelerate the clean energy transition by putting in place the right legal, policy and financial framework, which includes...
Lefkara determined to track down tree thieves Cyprus

Lefkara determined to track down tree thieves

November 15th, 20181689 Trees which are hundreds of years old are being cut down for firewood and making furniture in Lefkara local officials say. The cut trees include olive and carob and the authorities are determined to take action to combat the illegal logging. The municipality of Lefkara on Tuesday convened a meeting at its offices with the mayor,...
Larnaca beach cleanup in framework of green international marathon Cyprus

Larnaca beach cleanup in framework of green international marathon

November 13th, 20181129 A large part of the Finikoudes beach in Larnaca was cleaned on Monday from rubbish in the context of the “green” international Larnaca marathon. “A cleaning of the Finikoudes beach took place in cooperation with the Larnaca municipality as part of an important and at the same time symbolic move on which the organising committee...
Environmental pollution in developing countries - Is attenuation possible? Sponsored Post

Environmental pollution in developing countries - Is attenuation possible?

November 8th, 20181927 There are only two things no human or any life form can go without, air and water. Woefully, there is a major crisis worldwide related to environmental pollution, the situation being critical in developing countries. Even if you are lucky enough to live in a country where pollution levels aren’t alarmingly high as there are enough...
Free and legal household waste spots for Limassol residents Cyprus

Free and legal household waste spots for Limassol residents

November 8th, 20184690 Four ‘green points’ have been established in the Limassol district, where residents can unload bulky recyclable household waste for free, it was announced on Wednesday. The green points, located in the communities of Fasoula, Kolossi, Avdimou and Pareklisia, have been operational since September 28, said Mesa Geitonia mayor, Doros...
Wildlife populations plummeting in face of human activity World

Wildlife populations plummeting in face of human activity

October 29th, 20181757 Global wildlife populations have fallen by 60 per cent since 1970 as humans overuse natural resources, drive climate change and pollute the planet, a report warns. WWF has called for an ambitious "global deal" for nature and people, similar to the international Paris Agreement to tackle climate change, as the conservation charity's...
Limassol action group organises demo against high-rises Cyprus

Limassol action group organises demo against high-rises

October 27th, 20183768 A Limassol action group have called on the public to attend a demonstration on Saturday against the social and environmental consequences of the mushrooming high-rise buildings and soaring rents in the city. The demonstration, organised by the Active Citizens of Limassol Initiative, will take place on Saturday at 11am, starting from...
Cyprus scientists want your response on climate change and health Cyprus

Cyprus scientists want your response on climate change and health

October 24th, 20182433 By Xanthi Andrianou and Konstantinos Christos Makris Environment, climate change and health: what do we know? Since the 1950s, systematic human activities have caused the exponential growth of key global ecological drivers of planetary health: disruption of the global climatic balance, environmental pollution, rapid biodiversity...
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