A wildfire broke out in Milos island, on Tuesday. The fire is burning at three fronts and at the moment is within close distance of the island’s airport.
As part of the collaboration between the Georgios M. Michalos Foundation for the Sustainability of the island of Nisyros, and the Association for the Protection and Development of Mount Ymittos (SPAU), the first “Nisyros Dialogues” trail atop the capital’s Mount Ymittos was unveiled on Friday.
The municipal authority of Larissa has been fielding dozens of complaints in the past two weeks from citizens who have seen their homes, businesses and streets inundated by big flying cockroaches.
Greece has lost some 250 square kilometers of its beaches in the past 30 years and will see even more of its coastline being swallowed up by rising sea levels, Costas Synolakis, a preeminent authority on the impact of natural hazards, has warned.
A forest fire broke out in the Neurokopi area of Drama, in northern Greece.
Authorities have ordered the demolition of an illegal deck built by a watersports center on the shores of Lake Ziros in Preveza, northwestern Greece, it was reported on Monday.
Greece’s fire season has begun, posing a significant test for the recently formed forest commandos of the Fire Service.
A group of residents of the municipality of Agia Paraskevi in northern Athens are expected to mount a legal challenge in administrative courts against the conversion of a green space into an area for placing tables and chairs.
The mayors of Santorini, Serifos and Lefkada have raised the banner of despair over the effects of hypertourism on the sustainability of resources on the Greek islands.
Several fires have broke out on Friday in central and northern Greece, with residents of towns and villages receiving a message from 112 to evacuate or stay alert.
Greece is considering imposing a cap on the number of cruise ships visiting the country’s most popular islands to mitigate the damage from over-tourism, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview with Bloomberg released Friday.
The Epirus Regional Authority has been fined €181,000 for destructive environmental interventions in the Louros River in northwestern Greece.
“For years, we’ve been witnessing the decline, but it has reached alarming levels over the past decade. Climate change and the proliferation of invasive species are exacerbating the situation. I fear what all this means for the Greek seas, especially for a country that invests a quarter of its GDP in marine-related services and activities,” says Maria Salomidi, a researcher at the Institute of Oceanography at the Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR).
Two hundred and fifty Chinese-manufactured electric Yutong buses hit the roads of Athens (140) and Thessaloniki (110) οn Thursday, as part of the government’s plan for modern and sustainable urban mobility.
After a week of searing heat and dust from the Sahara, temperatures will somewhat ease on Friday, lowering to 34-38 degrees Celsius.
With temperatures soaring above 40s Celsius on Thursday after a week-long heatwave, authorities have issued a fire hazard warning for Friday.
Archaeological sites in Athens will remain closed for five hours on Thursday to protect tourists from the searing heat that continued for a third day.
The Attica Forest Fire Protection Volunteers (EDASA) group announced the start of fire watch patrols on Parnitha mountain on Wednesday and called for more people to join the effort of protecting one of the Greek capital’s most valuable natural habitats.
A wildfire in southwestern Cyprus has been brought under partial control, Kathimerini Cyprus reported Wednesday. The fire has damaged 14 houses and completely destroyed three in the Paphos region.
Greece shut the ancient Acropolis tourist site, suspended schools and stationed medics across Athens on Wednesday as it faced the first heatwave of the summer.
Schools will remain closed, public servants will work from home, and deliveries will not be made amid a mini-lockdown due to this summer’s first major heatwave, which has also put authorities on standby for the power supply.
Τhe European Center for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) has highlighted the danger posed by the increase in Europe of diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, as a result of climate change.
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