Crete urgently needs a comprehensive water resources management plan or it faces severe drought, a group of experts from the University of Crete’s (UOC) Museum of Natural History have warned.
CLIMATE CRISIS
Several villages in the regional unit of Corinth are facing severe water shortages, and the quality of the water when it is available is abysmal, residents say.
A wildfire broke out in Ammoni, Corinthia, on Tuesday afternoon.
A wildfire broke out on Sunday in the region of Pouri in Magnesia, central Greece.
Heatwave continues on Sunday across the country, with temperatures expected to reach up to 41 degrees Celsius, while a gradual decline is expected to start on Tuesday.
A veteran hotelier in Athens used to say, “Tourism is like a storm; for three years you might ride high on the waves and for the next two, you struggle to keep your head above water.”
A wildfire broke out in the Archangelos area of Laconia, Peloponnese, on Thursday afternoon.
The spokesperson of the fire service, Vassilis Vathrakogiannis, said on Thursday that 48 fires have broken out in the last 24 hours, with 44 of them immediately brought under control.
A wildfire broke out on Thursday afternoon on the island of Tzia, near Athens, prompting authorities to order the evacuation of two settlements as a precaution.
Greece experienced its tenth consecutive day of a heatwave on Wednesday, according to the Meteo weather service of the National Observatory of Athens.
The Italian health ministry placed 12 cities under the most severe heat warning Tuesday as a wave of hot air from Africa baked southern Europe and the Balkans and sent temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), with the worst still to come.
Athens had never been as attractive a tourist destination as it is now. But successive heatwaves, more frequent than ever, threaten to undermine this success.
It’s set to be another scorching summer, with extreme and prolonged heat waves forecast across many parts of the United States and Europe.
Wildfires broke out in Attica, Evros, and Parga on Wednesday, prompting the fire service to dispatch firefighters and aircraft to multiple areas
The preliminary investigation by the internal affairs directorate revealed mistakes and omissions by officials in the handling of the Hydra fire case involving a yacht, it was reported on Tuesday.
The extensive presence of crickets in the central Greek city of Trikala and its adjacent areas has been a source of intense irritation and unrest among locals in recent days.
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