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Climate Change to Bring Even More Snow to Greece Says Scientist

After a major snowstorm paralyzed the country for three days, a top Greek scientist warned that Greece could expect more heavy snow in the future due to climate change. Dr. Christos Zeferos, Professor of Physics and Meteorology at the Academy...

Greece Moves Up 10 Spots in the Climate Change Performance Index

Greece has moved up 10 spots in the Climate Change Performance Index's 2022 ranking released last week. Greece went from the 24th to 34th place in the CCPI's 2022 report. The authors note that Greece was able to rise the...

Climate Change: The Best and Worst Performers in the World

A new report on the world's response to climate change was presented on Tuesday at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. The Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) analyzes the impact 64 countries and the European Union (counted as a...

How Ancient Greek Philosophy May Have Caused Climate Change

The Athens fires were a dangerous reflection of the philosophies of a group of Greek philosophers called Atomists that saw the world as exploitable, for sale and open to waste and abuse. By Michael Paul Nelson & Kathleen Dean Moore Wildfires...

Anti-Climate Change Protest Held in Athens' Syntagma Square

Hundreds of Greek students protested against climate change in the country’s capital on Friday morning in what is becoming a regular occurrence, taking place every Friday in many cities around the globe under the title of ''Fridays for Future.'' The...

Greece's Piraeus Bank Commits to Collective Action on Climate Change

Piraeus Bank, the largest lender in Greece, announced on Thursday its participation in a climate change initiative created by thirty-one banks around the world. The banks participating in the “Collective Commitment to Climate Action,” which represent total assets of $13...

Greek PM Raises Cyprus Impasse and Climate Change in Meeting with UN Chief

The Cyprus issue and climate change dominated the talks between Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in New York on Thursday. In a statement, Mitsotakis said that he "thanked the Secretary-General for his very substantial...

Thousands of Students Across Greece Protest Against Climate Change

Thousands of Greek students protested against climate change in the country's largest cities on Friday morning. Rallies were held in many cities across the nation, including Kalamata, Chania, Patras, and Thessaloniki; the largest action was held in the capital city...

Climate Change Causes Drop in Grape Harvest in Greece, Affects Winemaking

In the past two years climate change has taken its toll on wine making in Greece by causing the grape harvest to decrease at an alarming rate, according to a recent Euronews report. The phenomenon is worldwide -- and it...

Climate Change Brings More Warm Days, Less Cold Nights in Greece

Climate change is affecting Greece, adding more very hot days and less very cold nights in every year from now on, according to a study by the National Observatory of Athens, published in the International Journal of Climatology. The study...

Ancient Greek Monuments, Including Acropolis, Threatened by Climate Change

Scientists have recently expressed concern regarding the impact of climate change on ancient Greek monuments, including the Acropolis. The extreme weather phenomena seen in recent years, as well as air pollution and acid rain, have created structural problems in the...

Climate Change will Cost Greece €700 Bln by 2100, BoG Chief says

Climate change will cost the Greek economy €701 billion cumulatively by 2100, Bank of Greece governor Yiannis Stournaras said on Monday during a conference on sustainable development. According to an analysis that quantifies and classifies the expected climatic risks for...

Greece's Coastal Areas 'at Risk' Due to Climate Change, Leading Scientist Warns

A leading scientist has warned that many coastal areas in Greece are at risk from rising sea levels due to global warming. Climate change will bring a host of direct and indirect effects to Greece says Athanasios Argyriou, professor of...

Recent Attica Floods Linked to Climate Change, European Scientists Say

"An event like the recent Greek flood cannot be called a 'natural disaster' without recognising the man-made causes exacerbating such events," according to scientists participating in the 7th annual general assembly of the European Network of Scientists for Social...

Greek Public Power Unionists: Climate Change Is a 'Chinese Conspiracy'

Greece's Public Power Corporation unionists said that the climate change is a "conspiracy" of Chinese multinational corporations that U.S. President Donald Trump has exposed. In a long statement issued by GENOP-PPC, the PPC workers' union, on the occasion of the...