#Environment

Some 17,000 cubic metres of mining waste is being removed from Argaka’s Mavrali beach in the Paphos district as part of a clean-up of an environmentally important area, Agriculture Minister ...

Local environmental NGOs were among more than 150 organisations that on Tuesday called on the European Commission to include the restoration of at least 15 per cent of land and sea area ...

The government plans to go ahead with taxation reform after 20 years, including raising the corporation rate and introducing carbon tax and fossil fuels taxes to achieve the country’s environmental ...

Calls for more drastic action intensifying Energy transition is unstoppable, particularly in Europe. Despite the current energy crisis, calls for faster energy transition during COP26 and subsequently, including calls for ...

Drafting four separate zoning and planning blueprints for the Akamas peninsula would have serious long-term and irreversible negative effects in the environmentally sensitive area, the federation of environmental organisations (Opok) ...

The extent of new projects in the pipeline for the agriculture ministry under the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) are second only to those of the transport ministry, and all ...

COP26 is providing the opportunity to redefine how we get to net zero without drama At a meeting last week at the European Commission’s (EC) EAAS I was asked ...

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 group of climate activists convicted for a protest against Swiss bank Credit Suisse applied on Friday for a review by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), in a ...

Authorities have called on members of the public not to disturb seals, a highly endangered species, currently in their breeding season. According to the fisheries department, in Cyprus, Mediterranean monk ...

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 ...

The forestry department led an expedition last week to study Roudias river in the southern part of the Paphos forest, with Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis among the 22 participants. In a ...

Parliament on Thursday passed legislation tweaking the Waste Law in such a way as to enable the activation on a nationwide basis of the ‘Pay-as-you-throw’ system designed to promote recycling. ...

Dali residents gathered outside the environment department in Nicosia on Thursday morning in another protest against the two asphalt plants operating in their community. “The situation is out of control, ...

Volunteers on Saturday collected over five kilos of cigarette ends, small plastics and fishing equipment from one kilometre of beach and seabed near Ayia Napa harbour as part of a ...

British climate change protesters on Friday temporarily blocked the Port of Dover, Europe’s busiest trucking port, and police arrested 39 people. About 40 activists from the environmental group Insulate Britain brought ...

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 ...

Earth is the only planet known to us where we can live By Roberto Sciffo The blue planet, planet earth, is unique to our solar system and, given our current ...

The Council of Ministers decided on a restructuring of the framework for managing environmental issues in Cyprus, agriculture minister Costas Kadis said following a meeting on Thursday. More specifically, the ...

Cyprus has signed up to an EU push to combat climate change and its impacts, but figures released by Eurostat on Wednesday indicate that this is still very much a ...

Cypriot scientist Dr Despina Serghides has won a place in the list of 12 internationally recognized “Life-Pioneers” in the section ‘Energy, Buildings and Sustainable Cities for her contribution to the global ...

Implementing these policies and policing their application will be a logistical nightmare for the EU The European Commission (EC) announced on Wednesday its ‘Fit-for-55’ package, with 13 new policies designed to ...

A new eco-friendly lifeguard tower is being built in Oroklini, the community’s leader Neophytos Fakontis said on Tuesday. The tower will have sanitation facilities, electricity from renewable energy sources, ...

European Union countries on Monday approved the bloc’s flagship fund to wean them off fossil fuels and protect communities most affected, paving the way for members to start receiving ...