Greece

While low tide is an everyday occurrence along the water, the recent phenomenon, was so extreme that it left much of the sea floor exposed.

As the year 2020 has had one unusual occurrence after another, it seems fitting that the year will end with another extremely rare event -- what astronomers say is a "triple conjunction" of planets, which will perhaps be another...

Skywatchers in Athens witnessed a very rare phenomenon on Tuesday called a "fallstreak hole," which is also known as a "hole punch cloud." A fallstreak hole is a large gap, usually circular or elliptical, that can appear in clouds. Because...

A spectacular weather phenomenon called a "roll cloud" was spotted north of Athens by a group of amateur meteorologists on Monday as rainstorms hit the Greek capital. The group "Forecast Weather," which says that this was the first time that...

Greeks are bearing the brunt of a weather phenomenon called "Medusa". Medusa's main features are heavy rains, hailstorms, and strong winds. Medusa comes after a series of heatwaves that mark this summer in Greece among the hottest summers on record....

On July 6, 2017, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of sunglint on the waters around Crete and the Aegean Islands. The phenomenon of sunglint is a matter of optics. Areas where the...

For the second time, Greek photographer Alexandros Maragos has had one of his photos selected as the photo of the day by NASA! Maragos, an Athens-based filmmaker and photographer captured the Greek sky over Patras in a unique scientifically explained...

Greece is about to experience a rare meteorological phenomenon known as Rex Blocking. The last time that it experienced the unusual weather experience was on October 3, 1991, when temperatures fell to 16 degrees centigrade within one or two...

It turns out that what scientists thought were the ruins of an ancient city in the gulf of Alykanas in Zakynthos, Greece, was in fact the result of a rare natural geological phenomenon that took place at least 5,000...

It appears that the crisis has changed the attitude of Greek students towards their studies. In the past years they weren't hurrying to complete their studies but nowadays they desperately get back to universities. The financial magazine "Economist," referred to the...

The list of the Greek crisis’ victims is steadily and alarmingly growing. A 38-year-old lecturer from the University of Athens is the most recent tragic loss in a country crippled by rising unemployment, severe cuts in pensions and salaries,...

Deputy Health Minister Markos Bolaris, Athens mayor George Kaminis, and representatives of the Athens Holy Archdiocese and the National Committee for the Rights of Man have submitted shocking evidence casting light on the tremendous dimensions of the “new homeless”...

Soccer club owner Makis Psomiadis – one of Greece’s most wanted men- was arrested after the anti-terrorist squad raided a luxurious villa in south Attica rented by Psomiadi’s friend, a thirty-eight year old former beauty Queen and model. For...

The ancient mystery of the great sound quality at the ancient Greek theater of Epidaurus has finally been solved, researchers posit.

Ikaria, a beautiful island located in the eastern Aegean, may look similar to any other Greek islands, but there is one vital difference.