Greece Gets Its First Snow of the Season in Mid-October
Snow arrived in northern Greece on Friday afternoon, weeks before the ski season is set to begin. Snowflakes fell at Kotyli in Kastoria at around 1,200 metres…
Climate Change
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Rhodes Flooding Kills One, 280mm of Rain Hits Island in Hours
Rhodes is in crisis after a catastrophic storm dumped more than 280 millimeters of rain on the island within hours on Wednesday, October 14, killing one person…
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One Dead as Flash Floods Sweep Cars Into Sea on Rhodes
A 25-year-old man is dead after floodwaters swept his car into the sea off Stegna beach on the island of Rhodes Wednesday. The man, who worked at a local…
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Greece Now Produces 12.5% of Europe’s Gold
Greece is now responsible for 12.5% of all gold produced in the European Union, after Eldorado Gold officially opened its Skouries mining operation in…
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Waterspout Caught on Video Off the Coast of Kos
A massive waterspout formed off the coast of Kos this morning, sending a towering funnel cloud from the storm clouds down to the surface of the Aegean Sea.
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Greece Bars Wind Farms From Its Most Touristed Islands
Greece has published a sweeping new spatial planning framework for renewable energy that effectively shuts the door on wind farm development across most of its…
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Turkey: Greece’s Aegean Wind Farms Are “Legally Void” for Us
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry has objected to Greece’s newly enacted Special Framework for Renewable Energy Spatial Planning, claiming the policy has “no legal…
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“Activists-for-Hire” Targeted a Business Supporting 80 Ios Families
A group of roughly 15 protesters showed up to the Kumbara beach area on the island of Ios yesterday afternoon, the 15th of August, blocking a small bridge…
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Salamis Wildfire Kills Two, Houses Burning
Two people are dead after a major wildfire broke out on the island of Salamis this afternoon, with firefighters battling two separate fronts simultaneously.
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Europe’s Gas Reserves Hit Lowest Level Since 2009
Europe is heading into winter with natural gas storage at just 59%, the lowest seasonal level recorded since 2009, according to Bloomberg analysis. The war in…
