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…
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…
Honey production in Greece is expected to fall by up to 90% this year, according to public broadcaster ERT. Reports indicate a 40-50% decrease in production compared to last year, with regions like Crete experiencing reductions of 80-90%. Varieties such as flower and pine honey may become scarce. The shortage is attributed to climate change,…
It is hot and sticky inside the crowded ferry approaching the coast of Naxos. When the ferry docks, the tourists, who are laden down with baggage, surge forward, impatient to disembark. It takes about half an hour for everyone to leave the ferry. The port is extremely busy: Cars honk horns, motorcycles weave in and out between…
Pedestrians walk past graffiti Athens is Lava in central Athens on July 12, 2017, which refers to … [+] the heatwave across the country during which temperatures have reached 40 degrees Celsius. / AFP PHOTO / Eleftherios Elis (Photo credit should read ELEFTHERIOS ELIS/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images In 2023, more than 47,000…
Greece is working to address the water crisis on its islands through the launch of 200 million euro funding mechanism this autumn that will support the creation of systems that address both the water crisis and the generation of renewable energy, says AMNA. The municipalities of islands will be invited to submit their proposals, which…
The loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta Caretta) is widely distributed in the world’s oceans as well as in the Mediterranean Sea and is considered to be a “keystone species” in the ecology of marine environments. The Mediterranean is an important nursery area for juvenile turtles and nesting sites are located on many of its beaches and…
The viability of all forms of life is highly dependent on the regularity of events such as the daily variations of light and the seasonal changes in climate. The regular variations in the physical phenomena are manifested in regular periodic events in biological life cycles such as the emergence of leaves and flowers, the developmental…