When Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team member Ismail had to leave his home country, Eritrea, he faced a dangerous journey to reach safety, crossing multiple countries and the Mediterranean Sea. In the months that followed, he faced detention, sickness, violence, and kidnapping, and saw many people who did not make it. Now he…
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-chemist-history-female-perfumer-science.html Perfume making dates back at least 3,000 years—to the time of Tapputi-belat-ekalle, who is considered the first chemist in history. What we know about her comes from inscriptions on fragments of clay tablets dating back to the Middle Assyrian period (1400–1000BC). The inscriptions tell us that Tapputi was in charge of “overseeing the palace”…
After more than four months of hot and dry weather in much of Greece, olive farmers and olive oil producers cite rain as the most critical factor for a substantial olive oil crop in the country in the coming 2024/25 crop year. “The drought has hit olive farming throughout the Mediterranean,” said Yiorgos Kokkinos, the president…
Rooftop restaurants in Athens hope that when you’re not eating or talking that you’ll be okay with a view of the Acropolis, if there is one, because otherwise all there is to see is a sea of dirty charmless concrete buildings, graffiti, and abandoned neo-classical buildings. Athens has rightfully developed a buzz in recent years…
Yusra Mardini has still not fully recovered from her ordeal on the crossing from Turkey to Greece nine years ago in a boat packed with asylum seekers. ‘I have worked a lot with myself in order to deal with and navigate through everything that has happened to me and how it has impacted not just…
Featured Article If I’m doing summer correctly—which is to say, getting out into the mountains and down to the river, hiking, swimming, and sucking up some of that vitamin D-boosting sunlight—I inevitably end up with bumps, bruises, and achy muscles from pushing the limits on how much fun I can pack into one season. I…
The 1st World Conference on Smart Islands will be held on the island of Pserimos on September 4-5 by the International Hellenic Association (ΙΗΑ). The conference will be organized with the help of the Municipalities of Kalymnos , Vari/Voula/Vouliagmeni and Kifissia, under the auspices of the Central Union of Municipalities of Greece (KEDE). Following up…
Hempcrete is a bio-based building material helping to power the drive to net-zero, but how can a product developed a millennia ago help tackle today’s environmental challenges? Euronews Culture gets down and dirty with a material that has Europe’s eco-conscious architects high with excitement. It really doesn’t look like much, but hempcrete is the green…
We’ve known for awhile that 2023 was by far the warmest year on record, triggering widespread alarm among climate scientists. Now, a newly released climate report reveals other disturbing trends. No aspect of Earth’s climatic life support system was spared from humankind’s impact last year, according to the State of the Climate 2023 report, led…
Greece could reap some 2 billion euros ($2.21 billion) annually and create 15,000 jobs if it used lands in the European Union’s Natura program for tourism although they are protected by law, a study by the think tank DiaNEOSIS has found. Some 25 percent of the country’s area is included and the report said developing…