A warmer-than-usual winter and a two-week heatwave that pushed the thermometer above 40 degrees Celsius on successive days has raised the temperature of Greece’s seas by as much as 5 degrees, a report showed on Saturday.
America’s youngest and biggest aircraft carrier has made an imposing sight after droppin anchor in Athens’ Faliro Bay near the Port of Piraeus, en route to Souda Bay on Crete from the Adriatic and Ionian seas, on Thursday.
Archbishop Elpidophoros of America issued an encyclical on Saturday lamenting the conversion of Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia into a mosque in 2020.
Greece is one of eight European Union member-states taking part in the Hyperion Project, a new effort to employ new technology in protecting cultural heritage sites from the harmful effects of climate change and extreme weather.
Tens of thousands of Athenians left the capital on Saturday in what is traditionally the largest summer holiday exodus.
Citizens in four villages in the region of Ilia, western Greece, were told on Saturday to evacuate in a message sent via the emergency number 112 due to a wildfire in a nearby area that broke out earlier in the day.
As tourists start to trickle back to the Greek island of Rhodes, some people are spending their vacation on empty beaches amongst charred trees and burnt land.
Forward Thanasis Antetokounmpo, the older brother of two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo, is staying with the Milwaukee Bucks.
Greece lost on penalties to Hungary at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan on Saturday to settle for the silver medal.
The service of “Odontotos”, the iconic rack railway train of Kalavryta in the northern Peloponnese, will return to service again on Saturday, after a pause during regional fires, operator Hellenic Train said on Friday.