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Mapping Greece’s seabed with brand-new tools

They are explorers of submarine faults, often at great depths, using sound waves as a guide in the darkness. They have been trying for decades to capture the geological “engravings” and underwater structures of Greece’s seabed so that seismologists can better “read” the future.

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02.04.2024 / 20:49

Expert: Hotter summers are foregone conclusion

The world is getting hotter and humanity will have to shield itself against the new conditions in the coming years, according to Spyros Pandis, professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Patras and researcher at the Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences of the Technology and Research Foundation in Greece (FORTH).

22.03.2024 / 11:30

Plane trees ravaged by killer fungus

A deadly fungus targeting plane trees has reached epidemic proportions in Greece. So far, more than 52,000 plane trees have died, and there is a risk that most of these deciduous trees will be lost.

05.03.2024 / 18:32

Omens not boding well after 2023 record heat

With extreme weather and climate change-related natural disasters, 2023 was the warmest year ever recorded since meteorological data started being systematically recorded. Although a documented forecast cannot be made, the likelihood that 2024 will be among the five to 10 warmest since the mid-19th century is heightened by the elevated temperatures in the first two […]

28.02.2024 / 20:22

Program seeks reduction of pesticides in agriculture

Breaking the indiscriminate cycle of spraying fields with pesticides is the objective of a major 28-month research program involving the Agricultural University of Athens, the Hellenic Mediterranean University, the Hellenic Agricultural Organization, the Benaki Phytopathological Institute, the Aristotle University, the Democritus University of Thrace and the Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas (FORTH). Funded […]

04.01.2024 / 21:54

Experts call for plan to manage water resources

Experts are calling for the implementation of a comprehensive water policy and the creation of a central body for the management of water resources, under a National Sustainable Management Plan, as is the case in other European countries.

23.12.2023 / 16:41

Landscape assessment at grassroots via geoinformatics

An intriguing and unique European research initiative, supervised by Greek experts, seeks to develop approaches and methodologies for assessing landscape quality in rural regions in order to safeguard it.

06.12.2023 / 11:05

National Observatory of Athens opposes being moved to Civil Protection

The government’s intention to incorporate the National Observatory of Athens (NOA), the oldest and one of the largest research institutions in the country, into the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, by cutting it off from the General Secretariat of Research and Technology, where all research centers belong, is coming under fire from the research community. 

02.12.2023 / 19:20

Robots trained to be porters

Research toward integrating robots into daily life is being developed by Greek labs and startups. Instead of static industrial robots, which have been operating for years in major industrial countries, research has shifted to so-called collaborative robots.

08.11.2023 / 16:40

Forest fires still raging in November

The number of fires in recent days may not seem a whole lot when compared to August, but the fact they are taking place in November is unusual.  There were 39 agroforestry fires on Monday, 30 the day before and 55 on Saturday. The fires didn’t get very large, but that doesn’t mean that strong […]

09.10.2023 / 13:55

Flood damage to Thessaly cotton ‘great,’ says expert

Thessaly is responsible for 81,000 hectares of the 250,000 hectares of cotton grown in Greece and the destruction wrought by storms Daniel and Elias in September was significant, according to the foremost cotton expert at the Hellenic Agricultural Organization (ELGO).

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