Weather

At least 90 people are feared dead after multiple tornadoes struck the United States on Friday night, tearing through Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee. The tornadoes were the product of a weather system that was causing intense weather events...

Greece is facing severe weather this weekend causing widespread flooding and serious infrastructure damage in the western parts of the country. The intense weather phenomena hit particularly hard Epirus and Thessaly, however, they also affected Etoloakarnania, Achaia and the Ionian...

Greece is expected to face severe weather over the weekend, with heavy rains and strong winds that will reach their peak on Saturday, December 11. The country's National Meteorological Service upgraded a weather warning issued on Thursday to an "alarm"...

Floods that followed heavy rainfall in Greece on Friday left one person dead and widespread destruction in buildings and cultivated fields, local officials said. According to the Deputy Regional Director of Ilia, in NW Peloponnese, Vassilis Giannopoulos, the man who...

Several parts of western Greece were hit by tornados, landslides and heavy rain on Friday, causing damage to buildings and flooding on many roads ghtourghout the region. Tornado hits Zakynthos, Greece Particularly hard-hit was the Ionian island of Zakynthos. Several hotels...

A digital model of the Earth, created by the European Space Agency (ESA) should make it easier for researchers to keep track of the effects of climate change and even help predict its ramifications in the future. Called "Digital Twin...

A gigantic quantity of Covid-19 plastic waste, amounting to an astounding 28,000 tons of trash, has been dumped into the world's oceans since the beginning of the pandemic, according to a recent study. Masks, gloves, and other waste that has...

Residents and visitors to the Cycladic Islands in Greece woke up to a dramatic sight on Friday morning, as dense fog, called "sea smoke," blanketed the islands. The phenomenon occurs when very cold air moves over very warm water. Often,...

Seagrasses, called by one researcher the Earth's "forgotten ecosystem," could hep us stave off further climate change if they are protected, as they ought to be all around the oceans and seas of the world. As some of the oldest...

Although the weather may seem like a natural part of life, many people suffer from weather phobias, ranging from the well-grounded fear of lightning -- which of course is truly deadly -- to the more unusual fear of snow. According...

Meteorologists in Greece and Italy are predicting a Mediterranean cyclone to hit both countries this weekend. Some have already called it a "Medicane," a word that comes by combining the words Mediterranean and hurricane. According to Greek meteorologist Klearchos Marousakis,...

With the coming of another Autumn, with its cooler temperatures and glorious gold, orange and red leaves, we all marvel at how beautiful the leaves are as they change color from the vibrant greens of Spring and Summer. And yes,...

Greece has seen extreme weather phenomena for the past 30 to 40 years, but their duration and intensity was nothing like what we are seeing today as part of climate change, weather expert and emeritus professor at the University...

Queen Elizabeth, a constitutional monarch who is not supposed to opine on political matters, was caught on video remarking on the supposed inaction of world leaders regarding climate change on Thursday. "Extraordinary, isn't it?" she is heard to say while...

Greece's fire service announced on Friday that one person had been killed on the island of Evia after he was carried away by the rushing water during the storm that has affected Greece for a second consecutive day. The 70-year-old...