A group of wild boars was spotted roaming the yards of houses in Menidi, western Athens, on Monday.
NATURE
Former Istanbul street dogs Dali and Deezi now live in the Netherlands, enjoying a pampered home life after years in a shelter in the Turkish city, and as other strays face being rounded up under a new law to clear them from the streets.
The Attica region is facing the prospect of water shortages, as the water reserves in Lake Mornos are decreasing significantly, according to a report on private broadcaster SKAI.
Researchers have long argued that regions deep in the Earth’s oceans may harbor sites from which all terrestrial life sprung. In the Atlantic, they gave the name “Lost City” to a jagged landscape of eerie spires under which they proposed that the life-preceding chemistry may have churned.
Wildfires broke out in Attica, Evros, and Parga on Wednesday, prompting the fire service to dispatch firefighters and aircraft to multiple areas
Lake Plastiras hosts a new festival this summer, inviting anyone wanting to enjoy live music and the outdoors.
Last year, Jaume Pellicer led a team of fellow scientists into a forest on Grande Terre, an island east of Australia. They were in search of a fern called Tmesipteris oblanceolata. Standing just a few inches tall, it was not easy to find on the forest floor.
Over a fifth of the 11,500 endangered animal, plant and fungi species in Greece are “critically endangered,” meaning they are under threat of extinction, a new assessment of the country’s Red List has found.
A group of 11 countries, led by Ireland, has made a last-ditch attempt to approve the EU’s flagship policy to restore damaged nature, amid concerns the law could be shelved following EU elections in June.
The Meteora Pyli Geopark has joined the UNESCO Global Geoparks network, which now encompasses 213 such parks in 48 countries around the world.
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.
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