Greece

The Chania Ephorate of Antiquities presented a group of small statues portraying the twin gods Artemis and Apollo to the public at the Archaeological Museum of Crete on July 24, 2019. The priceless statuettes had been found in the systematic...

A Sanctuary of Apollo was recently located by German archaeologists at Pera Oreinis-Fragkissa Lefkosia, Cyprus.

Thirteen-year-old Zisis Vagousis has dedicated several years of his life to cleaning coastal beaches, with his goal being to remove harmful plastic waste from the seabed. In an interview with 104.9 FM Athens Radio, the young teenager explained the reasoning...

Scientists from the Greek island of Andros are using a submarine with advanced sonar technology in order to document the state of the island's polluted seabed. The submarine, which is also equipped with a robotic arm, will enable researchers to...

A significant drop in air pollution readings has been observed in Athens since the government took strict precautionary measures to counter the spread of thecoronavirus, scientists said on Friday. According to data from the Climate Change and Atmospheric Quality Directorate,...

Students from the General and Technical High School of the American Farm School in Thessaloniki have developed a real-time marine pollution detection application for smartphones. The "ocLean AFS" (from the words "ocean clean") app is innovative software which aims to...

The Greek Tourism Ministry announced on Monday that it is launching a new public awareness campaign dubbed "Plastic-Free Santorini." The aim of the ambitious project is to spread a message encouraging a reduction in the use of plastics throughout all...

The Greek government announced a campaign on Wednesday to tackle pollution from plastics, and promised to completely ban single-use plastics by June of 2021. "Thirty-nine tons of plastic waste end up in the sea in Greece (every day) and a...

The mesmerizing television coverage of the Apollo 11 Moon landing 50 years ago was watched by thousands of Greeks who gathered in several central points in Athens where television screens were placed. Television sets were rare in 1969, and the...

A group of ten self-styled anarchists stormed a polling station in Exarcheia, the infamous neighborhood of Athens, stole a ballot box and set it on fire a few minutes before the voting ended for the general elections. The perpetrators used...

Greece’s center-right New Democracy (ND) party is the clear winner of the general elections held on Sunday, according to the joint exit poll presented by Greece’s major television stations at 19:00 local time. According to the exit poll, ND gets...

Greek voters cast their ballots on Sunday in the country's first national election of the post-bailout era, with leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's SYRIZA party expected to be ousted by the conservative opposition. A trio of opinion polls on Friday...

Greece's center-right New Democracy (ND) party is the clear winner of the European elections held on Sunday, according to the joint exit poll presented by Greece's major television stations at 19:00 local time. ND is expected to win between 32.5...

Greek authorities say that voting on Sunday proceeds smoothly as millions of Greeks are turning up at the polling stations for three separate but equally important elections. Citizens will vote for members of the European Parliament and vote in...

Millions of Greeks go the polling stations on Sunday to vote for the country's 21 representatives to the European Parliament. In parallel, they also vote for local, municipal and regional representatives. 9,922,294 voters (4,810,075 men, 5,122,219 women) are eligible to...