Environment

By Martin Clark Cyprus has quite a bit of forest, 19 per cent as a percentage of land cover. In these days of climate change and drier and hotter conditions, the ...

With October and November set to be busy months on the local cultural scene, the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra has five concerts planned for this autumn, bringing more quality music to ...

The community council of Kathikas, located in the Paphos district, and Terra Cypria, The Cyprus Conservation Foundation, have signed a cooperation agreement for the use of the Regional Multipurpose Cultural ...

By Jamie Freed and Rajesh Kumar Singh As major companies look at drastic ways to cut carbon emissions from corporate travel, airlines are bracing for a major hit to business-class ...

Britain’s Prince Charles says he shares the concerns of Greta Thunberg and other environmental activists that world leaders “just talk” about climate change and were not doing enough to ...

By Geert De Clercq France will ban plastic packaging for nearly all fruit and vegetables from January 2022 in a bid to reduce plastic waste, the environment ministry said on Monday. ...

“The dog days are over, but the summer spirit still lingers,” says the Nature & Spirit venue nestled in the woods of Moniatis village. A fun day-event that is coming ...

The time has come for Larnaca Biennale to return. This week exhibitions, installations, presentations and parallel events on the theme of Limitless Limits will begin around the town as the ...

Women’s Stories are the focus of an exhibition opening on Wednesday by artist and academic at the University of Nicosia Maria Christoforou. Maria approaches Women’s Stories by presenting ...

A version of Samuel Beckett’s iconic play Waiting for Godot, translated and adapted into both the Greek and Turkish Cypriot dialects, won two major awards over the weekend at ...

The military can play amid a positive role among wider efforts to alleviate the climate crisis, Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides told a climate change and security conference on Monday. Petrides ...

Coffee. Don’t we love to love it? It’s your morning energy cup, the fuel of the day but in Cyprus, the coffee culture goes way beyond just being ...

Calling all rock music lovers! The unique Paphos venue with its famous Mongolian tents, The Yurts in Cyprus, is organising a rock festival this month. On Saturday four bands will ...

The greatest tool for cross-cultural relations, tales and human connections may well be music and that is exactly what a two-year Erasmus+ musical inheritance programme has focused on. Titled Mapping ...

How many tales and how much heritage can a city hold? A new walking tour organised by the Association for Historical Dialogue and Research and the Home for Cooperation explores ...

After a successful 13-year cycle and with several fruitful collaborations with accomplished Cyprus-based and international artists under its belt the NO_BODY festival has transformed into the On_Bodies Festival ...

The artistic projects of this year’s Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival explore the theme of displacement, and this Saturday an interactive audio-visual installation will be set up opposite the ...

The transport ministry on Friday announced that it would replace four public service vehicles with electric cars, as part of a greening effort spearheaded by the environmental department. The electric ...

It is perhaps one of the biggest festivals of the Famagusta region, celebrated since 2006 with a wide range of vibrant events, performances and activities centred around the medieval ages. Musicians, ...

The event series Social Sculptures, organised by the Goethe-Institut Cyprus within the framework of Beuys100 and curated by Marina Christodoulidou, unfolded with a workshop that led to an exhibition, which ...

October is here already and it is bringing with it a whole series of live music performances, concerts and recitals. This week, Paphos will host an array of shows and ...

How about a free photography workshop, tour and wine tasting this weekend if you are in Nicosia? It is exactly what the Nicosia Tourism Board has planned for Saturday as ...

When Reflect Festival first started in 2018, it was a spontaneous idea that resulted in a small conference full of passionate, curious minds and new business ideas. Fast forward to today, ...

Since the beginning of September, Kypria International Festival has been bringing acclaimed local and international performances to the stages of Cyprus. Concluding towards the end of October, a few more ...