Stories and facts

On a plot of one square meter, a layer of precipitation one millimeter thick corresponds to one liter of water. Therefore, 1,100 millimeters of precipitation — This is…

Crab in the mountain stream — Not a casual sea guest. Potamon potamios live in fresh water. In addition to Cyprus, the regional album points it to the…

Fatty crystal leaves work as sticky traps for small insects. The plant continues to receive energy from light, and mining gives it additional nutrients.

The Cypriot mouflon seems to be the embodiment of an intact forest, but its ancestors brought a man to the island in the Neolithic. The regional album links…

Leisler’s bat — not only a night hunter over the forest, but also a migratory bat. Troodos’ album emphasizes her long-distance movements and the connection of shelters with…

The wing of the bat is formed by a transformed forelimb: the elongated fingers support the membrane.

Crystal Size — One of the clues is how long Rocks had to cool down. In depth, magma crystals usually have time to grow larger; with rapid cooling…

The island has a trace even in the name of the chemical element. Royal Society of Chemistry links English Copper through old forms to Latin Cyprium aes —…

To see why oak is called golden, you do not need to wait for autumn. The name is associated with the swelling of the underside of its evergreen…

Gypsum by Kato Moni — The memory of the event is much larger than these quarries. The catalog relates the formation of deposits to the interval of 5.96…

Seismology has become a way of studying another planet. According to the final report of NASA, the InSight mission device recorded 1319 marsquakes; the mission ended in 2022.

For the Troodos black roots, the album indicates heights of approximately 1600 – 1950 metres. For us a few hundred metres of climbing — part of the walk,…