Environment

Inspired by the bicentennial of the beginning of the Greek revolution, the newly established Alkman Saxophone Quartet will present a concert on July 16 called Five Centuries of Music in Blue ...

From this Saturday July 3, EU member states are supposed to ban some single-use plastics (SUPs) items and replace them with sustainable alternatives. But not in Cyprus. We still have not ...

It’s about using technology to maintain a viable, rural way of life By Charalampos Theopemptou In Cyprus helping rural areas usually means development rights, high speed roads and cobble ...

Beloved in both Greece and Cyprus, singers Alkistis Protopsalti and Michalis Hadjiyiannis are coming together this summer for a series of concerts in Cyprus. Touring Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca and Paphos, ...

By David Sherfinski As oil and gas majors increasingly tout their green credentials, climate change activists who say such claims are misleading are pursuing a new avenue to hold companies ...

By Will Russell Furloughed from her job and confined to London by coronavirus lockdowns, Flora Blathwayt founded a business based on rubbish she retrieves from the muddy banks of the ...

A typical hotel which installs 80 solar panels will have energy savings from heating water of between 30 and 40 per cent, an Employers and Industrialists Federation (OEB) official told an online seminar. ...

The Island Club presents Spirits of the Rainforest: A Photographic Innovation, an exhibition comprising the archives of Cypriot photographer Dimas Efthyvoulos, along with a reconstruction of his audio-visual presentation Spirits ...

It is almost time for 2021’s International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama. ELENI PHILIPPOU looks forward to a rich selection of performances Five productions will be staged as part of ...

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, ...

The Animal Party on Tuesday called on the public to protect their pets and livestock during the current high temperatures. Animals should not be left on balconies or terraces nor ...

What do intensifying heatwaves mean for our future? In this video, Dr. Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, of Sydney’s University of New South Wales, discusses the phenomenon being experienced with searing ferocity ...

Several walking tours have dressed Nicosia’s cultural agenda recently, uncovering the city’s tales, past and future. Two upcoming city walks organised by Home for Cooperation explore women’s ...

Given the mounting frequency and intensity of natural disasters, more and more communities around the world may be impacted by the loss or severe damage to their homes. Ordinarily, repairing ...

A new exhibition opening in Nicosia in July will be the first solo show by Andrea Christodoulides. Titled Run, the Glasgow-based artist, who graduated from the Royal College of Art, ...

Over the years, fishers in Oracabessa Bay, Jamaica, have had to venture increasingly further out to sea to find fish. During such trips, they would come upon bleached and dying ...

Two evenings of musical theatre are coming up in a few days. Hummingbird Music Theatre with a cast of 38 actors, musicians, presenters and children are putting on a show filled ...

In this video from the ‘Stories of the Deep’ series, we take a fascinating plunge into the murky depths of the Mariana Trench, the world’s deepest oceanic trench. Located ...

Smooth jazzy melodies, improv, intricate piano compositions and rhythmic vocals will return to Aglantzia this July as the 2021 edition of the popular AglanJazz festival returns on Wednesday 7 and Thursday 8 at ...

Α tribute to the jazz legend Charlie Parker will be staged by the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra with the help of another well-known, local musical ensemble. The concerts on June 30, July 1 and 2 ...

Kickstarting next month’s live music at Paphos venue Technopolis 20, Trio Frisson will perform a blend of groove, soul, reggae and world music on July 2. After their performance in the ...

For the third consecutive year, Kimonos Art Centre in Paphos presents a series of open-air film screenings in its garden. Running from July 16 to August 20 on Wednesdays and Fridays, this ...

In this video we take a look at the evolution of human bipedalism: a form of terrestrial locomotion where an organism moves by means of its two rear limbs or ...

They say there is beauty in simplicity. In photography, shooting in film is sometimes humbler than shooting digital though the process is more complex. It has no filters, no auto ...