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Environment - current issues Cyprus, in 34 editions.

The entry for Cyprus published Environment - current issues in 34 editions of 36, from 1990 to 2024. The text changed in 8 editions. Each is shown as published. Environment - current issues in every entry.

editions changed the text
8
the first edition with it
1990
the latest edition with it
2024

Published as “Environment” (1990 to 1996), “Environment - current issues” (1997 to 2024), “Environment-current issues” (1998) and “Environment--current issues” (1999).

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1996 edition

Changed since 1995

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Published as “Environment”

current issues:
  • water resource problems (no natural reservoir catchments, seasonal disparity in rainfall, and most potable resources concentrated in the Turkish Cypriot area);
  • water pollution from sewage and industrial wastes;
  • coastal degradation;
  • loss of wildlife habitats from urbanization
natural hazards:
moderate earthquake activity
international agreements:
  • party to - Air Pollution, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Whaling;
  • signed, but not ratified - Biodiversity, Climate Change

current issues: water resource problems (no natural reservoir
catchments, seasonal disparity in rainfall, and most potable resources
resources concentrated in the Turkish Cypriot area); water pollution
from sewage
and industrial wastes; coastal degradation; loss of
wildlife habitats
from urbanization
natural hazards: moderate earthquake activity
international agreements: party to - Air Pollution, Endangered
Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea,
Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship
Pollution; Pollution, Whaling; signed, but not ratified - Biodiversity, Climate
Change

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Central Intelligence Agency. “Cyprus: Environment - current issues.” The World Factbook, 1990–2024 editions. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/cyprus/environment-current-issues.

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