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Pictures show the natural world scorched after fires ravaged the Greek island of Corfu this week. The shell of a tortoise lies on the charred ground near the village of Loutses on the Greek island ...
A major wildfire raged out of control in the northern suburbs of Athens on Monday, triggering evacuations of several areas as swirling winds hampered the efforts of hundreds of firefighters and ...
The Greek authorities are investigating whether wildfires that threatened to engulf Athens were sparked by a single arsonist.. Civil protection minister Vassilis Kikilias said officials verified ...
The 2024 Greek wildfires are a series of 30-kilometre-long lines of forest fires across the Attica region. This series of fires started on August 11 and lasted until August 14, 2024. This series of fires started on August 11 and lasted until August 14, 2024.
In mainland Greece, normal faulting gives earthquakes up to 7 in magnitude, while in the northern Aegean, strike-slip events with a magnitude of 7.2 have been recorded. Large intermediate depth (>50 km) earthquakes of magnitude >7 from within the subducting African plate have been recorded but such events cause little damage, although they are ...
Greece is a country in the Balkan Peninsula of southern Europe, and lies to the south of Albania, North Macedonia and Bulgaria, and west of Turkey.It has a long coastline with the Mediterranean Sea and the Aegean Sea, and includes the island of Crete and many smaller islands.
ATHENS (Reuters) -Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the country faced a dangerous summer for wildfires on Monday, with a prolonged drought and unusually strong winds contributing to ...
Greece protested strongly, summoning the Russian ambassador. French President Emmanuel Macron and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, [145] along with Germany [146] and other countries, expressed their condolences to Greece. Russian authorities denied responsibility, but Greek authorities stated that they had evidence of Russian involvement ...