The story of central Greece’s Lake Karla, which was drained in the early 1960s, only to become a lake again and now to flood, is indicative of the slipshod manner in which natural resources have been managed and exploited in this country.
Two Austrians who went missing in recent floods in Greece have been confirmed dead as DNA tests on two recovered bodies confirmed their identities, the Austrian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday without naming them.
It’s not easy; people don’t change as soon as the circumstances demand it, overnight. It takes time, and sometimes even that isn’t enough.
I wrote the other day about the controversial video uploaded by Stefanos Kasselakis, a candidate for the leadership of the main opposition SYRIZA, of his visit to Makronissos (a small island off the coast of Attica used as a notorious military prison and concentration camp for leftists and communists from the time of the Greek…
Germany’s government is keeping a close eye on the evolving developments on the Greek-Turkish relations front. “We welcome the talks between the Greek and Turkish sides,” reads an official statement issued just a few hours after the meeting of the foreign ministers of Greece and Turkey in Ankara in early September. The text then says…
Did it surprise us? Yes. Was it unexpected? No. It was not just the big picture that was known to us: The climate crisis is spreading, with a 66% chance we are going to exceed the limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels; we managed to weaken the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic; this…
A C-130 military transport plane with two tons of food and armed forces doctors departed from Greece for Libya, which was ravaged by storm Daniel that almost wiped the city of Derna in the eastern part of the country off the map.
Police arrested a 31-year-old woman for endangering minors after eight young children, ranging in age from 3 months to 13 years old, were found alone inside a home on Saturday on the island of Crete.
About 200,000 residents in the wider Volos area in central Greece, which experienced extensive flooding in the aftermath of Storm Daniel, remained without drinking water for the 12th consecutive day on Saturday.