#climate change

By Gavin Jones A growing number of European countries are cutting fuel taxes to lower surging pump petrol prices. The move brings respite to motorists but environmentalists say it flies ...

Primary and secondary school students have called on politicians to take immediate climate action “to be able to dream for the future”. The new movement Generation KlimACT has published a ...

By Thomas S. Bateman and Michael E Mann Our species is in a race with climate change, and a lot of people want to know, “Can I really make a ...

By Simon Willcock, Gregory Cooper and John Dearing Sprawling 5.5 million square kilometres, the Amazon rainforest is the largest of its kind and home to about one in ten of all ...

Climate change is warming Arctic waters By Yereth Rosen With marine heat waves helping to wipe out some of Alaska’s storied salmon runs in recent years, officials have resorted ...

UN climate report urges immediate, drastic action By Jake Spring, Andrea Januta and Gloria Dickie Climate change is already disrupting billions of lives and humanity is not doing enough to ...

By Maria Demertzis The Maastricht treaty, signed thirty years ago this year, committed European Union countries to the greatest step in integration they’d so far taken. It established European ...

By Mohammed Benmansour As drought ravages the Middle East, Saudi environmental activist Abdullah Abduljabar sees a silver lining for deserts: Saxaul trees produce seeds only as they become drier, opening ...

The climate crisis and developments in the Cyprus problem were at the focus of a meeting which Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades had on Friday with the US Special Presidential Envoy ...

By Gloria Dickie Advances in satellite technology have revealed that the world’s glaciers contain significantly less ice than previously thought, according to a study published in Nature Geoscience on ...

By Alexis Karkotis Don’t Look Up, the new environmental-disaster political satire staring Leonardo Di Caprio and Jennifer Lawrence has been breaking records ever since its release on Netflix on ...

Progressive reduction of fossil fuel-based plastics is crucial to tackling climate change, the EU‘s top environmental official said, ahead of a United Nations meeting to launch talks on a ...

Climate change worsened weather extremes in 2021 By Lisa Shumaker and Andrea Januta Extreme weather events in 2021 shattered records around the globe. Hundreds died in storms and heatwaves. Farmers struggled with ...

By Natasha Gillies Not all relationships end in “happily ever after”, and birds are no exception. While more than 90% of bird species form monogamous couples, many of these will end ...

By Alicia Powell Director Adam McKay has assembled an all-star cast brimming with Oscar winners to give a humorous warning about climate change in new movie “Don’t Look Up”. ...

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japparov told the COP26 global climate summit this month that his Central Asian nation would achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 – but right now his government is urging citizens ...

The young are navigating conflicting visions of a utopian techno-digital future and a dystopia in which the earth’s landscape has been degraded beyond repair By Alexis Karkotis This is ...

The forestry department will distribute 60,000 trees to be planted to tackle climate change, it was announced on Friday. The move was part of the EU strategy for biodiversity which aims ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides This year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP 26) in Glasgow constitutes a crucial event for mankind. Despite the noticeable progress achieved in some areas, ...

I WOULD never have thought that the majority of we Cypriots are suppressed eco warriors deeply concerned about climate crisis and prepared to make big personal sacrifices to save the ...

Negotiators at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow are expected to lock horns on Friday for what is scheduled to be the final day of bargaining over how to ...

Crossbills, Black Pines and Troodos are intricately linked. COP26 must make sure it stays that way The give-away, as often, was the soft ‘pok’ sound made by a pinecone landing ...

By Alister Doyle An overarching goal for the COP26 UN summit of “keeping alive” a 1.5-degree Celsius limit on global warming is in jeopardy, with deep splits about what would ...

The coming decades will see a greater impact from climate change in Cyprus, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Monday, stressing the need for changes to the way water is ...