Greece

Prespa Lakes in northern Greece are among the four finalists of the prestigious 2012 Thiess International Riverprize. Officials of the international organization acknowledged the environmental significance of a new sustainable program undertaken by the Prespa local authorities for lake...

Lakes in Greece go under-appreciated because of the country's wealth of beaches and islands, but Greek lakes are surely enchanting and worth a visit!

The meetings of the international conference on the “innovative eco-tourism strategies in Prespa lake-New Dimensions of Development” concluded with the signing of a cooperation platform and the decision to establish a pilot tour package that will provide an acquaintance...

Prespa is the name of two freshwater lakes in southeast Europe, shared by Albania, Greece and FYROM. They are the highest tectonic lakes in the Balkans, standing at an altitude of 853 m (2,798 ft). The Great Prespa Lake, also...

In Greece, as in other European Union countries, lakes are theoretically protected by a variety of international agreements and protocols, presidential decrees and ministerial decisions, but in reality very little is done to keep these bodies of water clean...

The Greek parliament will ratify the decision to reopen the border crossing in the region of the Prespes Lakes between Greece and North Macedonia next week. The landmark decision was announced by Greece's Alternate Foreign Minister Sia Anagnostopoulou in a Wednesday...

Greece's PM Alexis Tsipras survived a vote of no-confidence in parliament on Saturday on the provisional deal on the naming dispute with Skopje.  Lawmakers, including those belonging to his coalition junior partner, the right-wing Independent Greeks, voted against the motion tabled by...

Greece acquired its first two solar boats. The boats will be used for leisure trips in the protected areas of Small and Big Prespa lakes in the Greek borders with Albania, in the framework of the transnational project entitled "Green Boat." It...

An extraordinary and beautiful story of humans helping animals took place recently in the air between Cyprus and Greece. Two young rosy pelicans which had failed to complete their migration and became "stranded" on the island nation of Cyprus were...