Environment

Cabinet on Wednesday rubberstamped a €3.7 million scheme for 1,000 electric vehicle charging stations across the country. The efforts are part of the national recovery and resilience plan titled ‘rapid transition to ...

The Cyprus Architects’ Association on Wednesday condemned Limassol municipality’s decision to grant a tender to a private company for the revamp of the municipal gardens, requesting the intervention of ...

A wildlife activist group saved a rare Egyptian fruit bat and five blackcap birds after they were found entangled in an illegal mist-net setup in Vrysoules. The committee against bird ...

By Nidal al-Mughrabi In a scrapyard near Gaza’s fence with Israel, thousands of old batteries are piling up – one of several such sites in the enclave set up to ...

By Lauren Owens Lambert Shorter winters in Maine’s woodlands have created a huge problem for the state’s iconic moose, in the form of tiny blood-sucking ticks that thrive ...

The waste management plant at Pentakomo is a flawed design and is not serving its purpose By Efi Xanthou These past weeks a new waste fire has been a bitter ...

By Jake Spring Environmentalists, world leaders and sustainable investors on Monday cheered the victory of Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has promised to protect the Amazon rainforest ...

By Jack Graham At the UN COP26 climate summit last year, nations agreed to make more ambitious plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions and boost efforts to prevent the worst ...

Local charity Cans for Kids is offering opportunities in environmental awareness and philanthropic volunteering through their project Working for Environmental Community Action Now, or WE CAN. The move has support ...

The Paphos tourism development organisation (Etap) in collaboration with the Pomos community council and the support of volunteers on Monday completed a clean-up of the harbour of Pomos, and its ...

A group of Limassol citizens calling themselves “The Garden is Ours” on Monday demanded the immediate suspension of construction works at the Limassol public garden playground. The citizens’ group, which ...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis welcomed the ‘Running out of time’ relay on Monday, which arrived in Cyprus on their way to climate change talks (COP27) in Sharm al-Sheik, Egypt on ...

The federation of environmental NGOs (Opok) on Monday criticised the Limassol district administration for its failure to act over illegal constructions within the protected coastal area in Ayios Georgios Alamanou. ...

On Saturday, October 8, the Limassol-based company Praxis Tech, in collaboration with NGO SaveYourHoodCY, hosted a successful beach clean-up at Karnagio Beach in the Limassol district. This was the first of ...

With a violin on his back and maps in his bag, Dan Hodd left Spain a month ago and was cycling through busy Baghdad as he heads to the COP27 ...

The European Union struck a deal on Thursday on a law to effectively ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2035, aiming to speed up the switch to ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will not attend the COP27 climate summit that begins in Egypt next month, his office said on Thursday, with other senior ministers going instead to ...

Limassol municipality, with the aim to become climate neutral within the next eight years, signed a cooperation agreement with the Cyprus university of technology (Tepak) last week. After the signing ...

By Aliakbar Gholampour Building materials and construction generate about 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Much of these emissions are due to the environmentally unfriendly process of producing ordinary Portland cement, ...

It is a call to action, not an ‘all is lost’ message. Nonetheless, it is sobering. Very sobering The latest State of the World’s Birds report, just out from ...

By Cordelia Hsu Australia-based environmental artist Marina DeBris aims to portray the power of one person in the planet’s fight against marine pollution with her latest sculpture showcased at ...

By Kate Abnett and Bart H. Meijer European Union countries agreed on Monday to raise their target to curb greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris climate agreement next year, as ...

With the academic year now underway, the Akrotiri Environmental Education Centre (AEEC) team has developed an array of educational programmes for children from all over the island. With Covid-19 restrictions ...

A partial solar eclipse on Tuesday can be seen by enthusiasts in Cyprus. The eclipse, which will begin shortly before 1pm and last for two hours, will be visible over ...