Environment

A solo exhibition by well-known artist and professor Panayiotis Michael at eins gallery will run until June 12. The showcase titled Humming in Non-Linear Time “flirts with what movement of time ...

In 1980, accountant Omar Tello bought a rainforest pasture outside Puyo, his small Ecuadorian city. The bold step was a bid toward fulfilling a lifelong dream of restoring Amazonian fauna and ...

After stopping in Nicosia last autumn, the striking art installation Disappearing Wall travels to the Molos seafront in Limassol next weekend. This event was initially planned for November 2020 but had ...

How easily does one touch their body? It’s a bold question that is a main theme in the play Underpants – part 1. Written by Nayia Karakosta and Eleni Anastasiou, the ...

The ministry of agriculture chose the humble Cypriot donkey thistle (Onopordum cyprium), to mark world environment day on Saturday, saying it highlights the intrinsic role all plants play in maintaining ...

There is a neighbourhood in the centre of Nicosia that resides quietly next to Pediaios river and is filled with narrow streets, old houses with high ceilings and indoor yards ...

In this video, we look deeper into the traits of the domesticated fox, how they overlap with present-day dogs, and how their intelligence and behaviour patterns may diverge from wild ...

Ceramist Vassos Demetriou is organising the 5th experimental ceramic workshop in the village of Androlykou. A week of clay creations and learning about the various techniques is what the workshop ...

In the framework of the exhibition The Day Begins at Night by artist Lefteris Tapas that is currently on at NiMAC a series of educational programmes will be presented throughout ...

NeMe Arts Centre and curator Régine Debatty are putting together the exhibition Working Towards our own Obsolescence, which opens on June 18 and features the work of artists who are ...

It is everyone’s responsibility to preserve and restore natural ecosystems in Cyprus, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Friday as he stressed the importance of continuing to raise public ...

While many chameleons are shades of brown and green, which allow them to blend in with their environment naturally, they are best known for their ability to change colour. Yet ...

Nicosia’s art scene has two upcoming events that brings crafts to the street and open-air bars. Perikleous street in old Nicosia will be a festive corner this Saturday as ...

With nearly daily lives, Kafeneio To Leoforio in old Nicosia has numerous performances planned throughout June and three are coming up this weekend. On Friday local musicians Avgi Stavrou and ...

The transition from horse to horsepower ushered in an infrastructural revolution that rippled through every part of society and made the modern world possible. A century later, we may be ...

The mean concentration of fine particles (PM2.5) in urban areas in Cyprus stands at 13.8 μg/m3, slightly above the EU average, according to a Eurostat report for the year 2019 published ...

Art Seen, a space in Nicosia for contemporary art projects, is hosting a new group exhibition this June featuring the work of 16 artists from Cyprus, Greece, France, the UK, Denmark ...

A cargo ship carrying tonnes of chemicals sank off Sri Lanka’s west coast, its navy said on Wednesday, and tonnes of plastic pellets have fouled the country’s rich ...

Welcome to some fascinating evolutionary genomics! In this video, we learn about the process of gene death and that it doesn’t always have to be bad – in fact, it ...

As the island’s music scene slowly gets restarted, Sarah’s Jazz Club – which has been shut for most of the past year – will finally open its doors again and ...

“I see a huge and growing gap between the rhetoric and the reality,” said Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency, two weeks ago, but he despaired a bit ...

By Alexandros Charalambides Over the past five years, there has been significant growth in entrepreneurship activities in Cyprus with networking events, entrepreneurship competitions, startup accelerators and angel financings forming the ...

Last week the Cyprus Mail quizzed the major political parties on a variety of environmental issues including illegal bird-trapping, ahead of last Sunday’s parliamentary elections. BirdLife Cyprus explains why ...

Nicosia Municipality has signed a €1.8m agreement with the Electricity Authority to replace 7,300 street lights with smart LED technology, expected to reduce energy consumption by more than 65 per cent. Signed ...