The Meteora Pyli Geopark has joined the UNESCO Global Geoparks network, which now encompasses 213 such parks in 48 countries around the world.
NATURE
nature breaks rules all the time, and the latest animals to confound the yolk vs. milk binary are caecilians, the egg-laying, legless amphibians that look like worms.
A young brown bear that sustained a head injury in a collision with a vehicle last month has been returned to the wild, a wildlife protection organisation has announced. The young bear, named “Glyka” (Sweetness) at the Arcturos wildlife veterinary hospital where she was taken for treatment, made a full recovery after she was hit by a vehicle on October 13.
Conservationists in Cyprus released griffon vultures into the wild on Friday, in the latest attempt to boost a critically endangered population of the scavenger birds. Once thriving, the number of vultures on the east Mediterranean island is the smallest in Europe as accidental poisoning or changing farming techniques have left them short of food.
A red panda has been born in Attica Zoological Park in Spata, east of Athens, the park has said. The unnamed two-month old panda, which was presented to the public for the first time last weekend, is still very closely attached to its mother, Jay.
The Samaria Gorge in Crete, which was closed on August 14 following rockslides caused by an earthquake, will remain closed to visitors until Monday, inclusive, authorities said Saturday.
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.
Clearing the accumulated biomass on the forest floor is a first step toward making the country’s woodlands safer and not so fire-prone. But it is not enough, experts claim.
A mayor of one of Thessaloniki’s municipalities has highlighted the presence of up to 9,000 wild boars in the area, warning that their number could jump four times that in two years unless measures are taken to control them.
On a recent afternoon, Jo Farb Hernández, a Californian folklorist and curator, was admiring the bizarre structure that stood before her near Spain’s border with France.
A herpetologist who was bitten by a horned viper in Thessaloniki was moved from intensive care into a regular ward on Saturday after being rushed to the northern port city’s Papanikolaou Hospital on March 26 with anaphylactic shock.
A 40-year-old herpetologist is in intensive care in hospital after being bitten by a viper in a Thessaloniki school.
Desperate to escape the concrete jungle? These seven activities will get you closer to nature without having to drive (too) far away from the city center.
The annual flower show in Athens’ northern leafy suburb of Kifissia is opening on Thursday with a focus on Greek gardens.
When the American Museum of Natural History’s new insectarium opens on May 4, a half-million leafcutter ants will share the title of star attraction.
A dwarf elephant the size of a Shetland pony that once roamed Cyprus was an example of the “island effect,” a rule in evolutionary biology describing how large-bodied species tend to downsize on islands while small-bodied species upsize.
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