Environment

It has been one of the most talked-about plays of the year with performances at theatres around Cyprus, which won awards at a theatre festival in Turkey last week. Waiting ...

It’s a heavy topic, talking about women and children who were sucked into the human trafficking ring but one that shouldn’t be ignored. Some call them victims but ...

Understanding and archiving identity can be a complex task and for Cypriot ceramist and expressive artist Athena Ierodiaconou van Dongen is of utmost importance. Having lived in a variety of ...

Staff from the Akrotiri Environmental and Education Centre and members of the cyprus Game and Fauna Service, this week released four protected bird species back into the wild after they ...

Failure to act on climate change will impact public health, ecosystems, agriculture, tourism and water resources in an unprecedented way, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday, warning that the supply ...

Village scenes, local meals, traditional handicrafts and colourful landscapes usually make up the postcards of Cyprus. Yet there are more ways than one to immortalise the island, its people, culture ...

By Martin Clark Cyprus has quite a bit of forest, 19 per cent as a percentage of land cover. In these days of climate change and drier and hotter conditions, the ...

With October and November set to be busy months on the local cultural scene, the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra has five concerts planned for this autumn, bringing more quality music to ...

The community council of Kathikas, located in the Paphos district, and Terra Cypria, The Cyprus Conservation Foundation, have signed a cooperation agreement for the use of the Regional Multipurpose Cultural ...

By Jamie Freed and Rajesh Kumar Singh As major companies look at drastic ways to cut carbon emissions from corporate travel, airlines are bracing for a major hit to business-class ...

Britain’s Prince Charles says he shares the concerns of Greta Thunberg and other environmental activists that world leaders “just talk” about climate change and were not doing enough to ...

By Geert De Clercq France will ban plastic packaging for nearly all fruit and vegetables from January 2022 in a bid to reduce plastic waste, the environment ministry said on Monday. ...

“The dog days are over, but the summer spirit still lingers,” says the Nature & Spirit venue nestled in the woods of Moniatis village. A fun day-event that is coming ...

The time has come for Larnaca Biennale to return. This week exhibitions, installations, presentations and parallel events on the theme of Limitless Limits will begin around the town as the ...

Women’s Stories are the focus of an exhibition opening on Wednesday by artist and academic at the University of Nicosia Maria Christoforou. Maria approaches Women’s Stories by presenting ...

A version of Samuel Beckett’s iconic play Waiting for Godot, translated and adapted into both the Greek and Turkish Cypriot dialects, won two major awards over the weekend at ...

The military can play amid a positive role among wider efforts to alleviate the climate crisis, Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides told a climate change and security conference on Monday. Petrides ...

Coffee. Don’t we love to love it? It’s your morning energy cup, the fuel of the day but in Cyprus, the coffee culture goes way beyond just being ...

Calling all rock music lovers! The unique Paphos venue with its famous Mongolian tents, The Yurts in Cyprus, is organising a rock festival this month. On Saturday four bands will ...

The greatest tool for cross-cultural relations, tales and human connections may well be music and that is exactly what a two-year Erasmus+ musical inheritance programme has focused on. Titled Mapping ...

How many tales and how much heritage can a city hold? A new walking tour organised by the Association for Historical Dialogue and Research and the Home for Cooperation explores ...

After a successful 13-year cycle and with several fruitful collaborations with accomplished Cyprus-based and international artists under its belt the NO_BODY festival has transformed into the On_Bodies Festival ...

The artistic projects of this year’s Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival explore the theme of displacement, and this Saturday an interactive audio-visual installation will be set up opposite the ...

The transport ministry on Friday announced that it would replace four public service vehicles with electric cars, as part of a greening effort spearheaded by the environmental department. The electric ...