Vatera is a Late Pliocene (~2 Ma) locality in the southern part of Lesvos Island, Greece, in which a mainland fauna of large vertebrates has been found and systematically excavated. The fauna is composed of the typical European mammals of that time: horses (Equus), giraffes (Mitilanotherium), gazelles (Gazella), antelopes (Gazellospira), oxes (Leptobos), raccoon dogs (Nyctereutes),…
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…
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…