Environment

What is this new thing with the caps being attached to plastic bottles? By Natasa Ioannou Are tethered caps another way to inconvenience consumers or is there a reason behind ...

Dust levels in May were the worst for that month in the past five years, the latest readings by Care-C research center at the Cyprus Institute showed on Tuesday. The ...

By Gloria Dickie and Simon Jessop The number of fossil fuel companies setting net-zero emissions targets has risen sharply over the past year, but most fail to address key concerns, ...

By Kate Abnett Claims by centre-right lawmakers that the EU’s flagship bill to restore nature will hurt farmers and endanger food security are not supported by scientific evidence, more ...

Key vote looms on future of EU nature restoration The vote on the future of nature restoration is one of the most important decisions the EU has ever been faced ...

The environment department on Sunday defended issuing an environmental report for a factory in Ypsonas Limassol that intends to burn tyres to create fuel, saying all necessary legal procedures. The ...

The Canadian province of Quebec says rain and outside help could help win the fight against more than 100 forest fires producing plumes of smoke that have left cities on the ...

The European Commission is working on plans to speed up investment in capturing and storing carbon dioxide emissions, it said on Friday, as the bloc prepares to slash its net ...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said on Thursday it was lowering a safety alert for Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, a day after warning that a new eruption had taken ...

The Kremlin said on Thursday that there would be a “negative impact” on the fate of a Black Sea grain deal from a blast which damaged a pipeline used to ...

Up to 4000 microplastics per square meter were detected on Cyprus’ coasts, the non-governmental research centre, AKTI, announced on Thursday. The announcement, on the occasion of International Oceans Day, came at ...

Firefighters battled hundreds of forest blazes on Wednesday as Canada’s worst-ever early season wildfires prompted the evacuation of thousands and a blanket of smoky air wafting over U.S. ...

How cats and dogs affect the climate – and what you can do about it By Peter Alexander According to Patrick Hanson, the CEO of Luxaviation, a Luxembourg-based luxury airline firm, ...

Our public buildings are supposed to be zero emission by 2026, just three years away Over the years we witnessed energy price surges quite a few times, but the situation became ...

By Kate Abnett European Union countries want to water down parts of the bloc’s flagship nature law by adding loopholes to dodge certain targets, as they attempt to find ...

Satellite-tagged vultures uncover suspected poisoning incidents near Kafue National Park By Gloria Dickie Lion and leopard populations in Zambia’s Kafue National Park are showing signs of a modest comeback ...

Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos on Tuesday warned of the dangers that plastic pollution poses for Cyprus and the world. Speaking a day after World Environment Day, celebrated annually on June 5 ...

The environment department gave the green light for a large photovoltaic park in Trimiklini, despite the local community’s initial objections. The 2.2 MW photovoltaic park, owned by A.V. Earth ...

Gender-sensitive policies are needed to tackle the climate crisis, which has led to an increase in violence against women, the federation of women’s movements (Pogo) said on Monday. Women ...

The Commissioner for the Environment, Maria Panayiotou, said that the Pedagogical Academy National Forest Park in Nicosia is set to become a model in terms of water management. In a ...

The Green party on Saturday decried “the environmental crime” at the Ammos tou Kambouri beach in Ayia Napa, during a protest organised ahead of World Environment Day. “This is a ...

Airlines will ride the crest of a faster-than-expected recovery and discuss ways of translating climate pledges into action at a summit buoyed by a return to business as usual next ...

Volunteers collected 680 kilos of rubbish along the Dasoudi beachfront as part of the underwater and beach cleanliness campaign in Limassol. The clean-up was organised by the Coastal Studies and Research ...

Exxon Mobil Corp XOM.N and Chevron Corp CVX.N shareholders on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected calls for stronger measures to mitigate climate change, dismissing more than a dozen climate-related proposals ...