Environment

Desalination plants will work on a continuous basis to help relieve the pressure on the island’s dams and provide farmers with water, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Sunday ...

An upcoming conference will look into mountains in general, not just those in Cyprus. The Learning With Mountains; Recalibrating How We Understand Art and Planet is an international conference in ...

Cyprus is bracing for a severe summer water shortage, with authorities urging immediate action to curb wastage and ensure supply for all. Deputy director of the Water Development Department (WDD), ...

City Friends Club, in collaboration with the Polemidia municipality, is calling for 300 volunteers to help restore Polemidia Hill behind the General Hospital, an area that has once again been overwhelmed ...

Fifteen vultures from Spain arrived in Cyprus on Friday, ornithological charity BirdLife Cyprus said. The measure is part of ongoing efforts to save Cyprus’ critically endangered griffon vulture population, with ...

A new public water cooler offering free, and chilled water has been installed along the Pedieos River, marking a step forward in efforts to promote sustainability and reduce single-use plastics ...

The Cyprus Animal Party has proposed the adoption of an “Adopt My Christmas Tree” programme to help reduce excessive logging and promote sustainable tree use. In a statement, the party ...

Four environmental organisations slammed the forestry department on Tuesday for not sticking to the guidelines of a Special Ecological Assessment Report (SEA) covering works in the Akamas. Terra Cypria and ...

Russia’s legendary cold winters are not what they used to be. Early snowdrops, mild January temperatures and a lack of ice on rivers and lakes are all unwelcome signs ...

For 30 years, Shemsi Gara operated a giant digger in a Kosovo coal mine, churning up toxic dust that covered his face and got into his airways. Home life wasn’t ...

Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there, after the state’s highest court said the animals have no legal right to demand their release because they ...

The owner of a hotel development in Latsi has continued construction work despite a lack of permits as the Paphos district organisation (EOA) said on Tuesday it will seek its ...

The state needs to beef up staffing and maintenance expertise in the Water Development Department (WDD) as other dams built in the same era as Mavrokolymbos, could suffer the same ...

German bicycle-sharing company Nextbike will present a new fleet of electric bikes in Limassol next Thursday, the city’s municipality announced on Friday. The municipality described the initiative as a ...

Aglaia Patsalides, a student at the English School of Nicosia, recently presented the ‘ParkVol’ initiative to the mayor and deputy mayor of Strovolos. This idea, conceived and founded by her, ...

A roadmap for the future of the “pay as you throw” scheme, wherein people are forced to pay for special issue rubbish bags to have their rubbish collected, was agreed ...

Launching the ‘pay as you throw’ scheme at present is unrealistic and the project must be postponed until all necessary research has been carried out – including how the collected waste ...

Diko MP Chrysanthos Savvides on Wednesday proposed that Cyprus legalise falconry and hunting using other birds of prey, with the aim of stemming the growth in the Paphos district’s ...

Roadworks and other projects in Akamas are set to be scrutinised as a study is set to be presented on the implementation of terms set by the ad hoc committee, ...

President Donald Trump once again withdrew the United States from the Paris climate deal on Monday, removing the world’s biggest historic emitter from global efforts to fight climate change ...

Battery recycling is one of the most critical aspects of environmental management, mainly because of the toxic substances they contain. In Cyprus, the NGO AFIS Cyprus manages the collecting, transporting ...

A tender for a mobile water desalination unit in Paphos is expected to be announced soon, agriculture ministry director Andreas Gregoriou said on Monday. The announcement follows a catastrophic leak ...

A flood of claims of illegal activities at Faros beach in Pervolia prompted the recently appointed regional mayor to say in December that these activities have turned the area into ...

Working to understand the marine environment of Cyprus, once local scientist is now hoping to improve it to a degree through pioneering pilot research restoring local corals through the creation ...