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Greek Winemakers Team Up to Save Endangered Greek Grapevine Varieties

Winemakers from across Greece have pooled their efforts recently to save a total of eleven endangered grapevine varieties which are threatened with extinction in the country. The team believes that these efforts to save the Greek grapevine varieties serve as...

Greek Volunteers Rescue Trapped Wolf in Dramatic Operation

Volunteers from Greece's animal welfare organization ''ARCTUROS'' launched an operation recently to save a trapped female wolf from a house's iron fence in a village near Thessaloniki. The unfortunate, petrified animal had most likely been chased by dogs and became...

Greek Climate Activist Spreads Message by Cycling Around the World

A Greek activist is launching a campaign to raise awareness about climate change by cycling a total of 7,500 km (4,660 miles), a minimum of nine hours a day, taking in eight countries, and then scaling Mount Everest, the...

Greeks Turn Their Backs on Plastic Shopping Bags

The use of light plastic bags plunged an amazing 98.6 percent in Greek supermarkets in 2019 compared with 2017, the Research Institute of Retail Consumer Goods (IELKA) said in a report released on Wednesday. According to the report, Greek households...

Athens' Unique Mulberry Trees on the Brink of Extinction Due to Insect Damage

Approximately three hundred and fifty mulberry trees in Athens have been decimated by a wood-boring insect called ''Xylotrechus Chinensis,'' and another 1,000 have been infested, Athens municipal arborists said on Tuesday. These beautiful and now characteristically-Athenian trees line some of the...

Greece Launches ''Plastic-Free Santorini'' Campaign in Bid to Eliminate Pollution

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...

Volunteers Collect More Than 13 Tons of Garbage from Greek Beaches

Over thirteen tons of garbage were collected from Greek beaches and the seabed in 145 separate cleaning operations between September and October 2019, the Hellenic Marine Environment Protection Association (HELMEPA) announced on Thursday. The detritus was collected by a total of...

Wind Energy Production Soars in Greece in 2019

Wind energy output soared to new record highs in Greece last year, according to the latest official data released on Thursday by the Hellenic (Greek) Wind Energy Association HWEA/ELEATEN. More new wind energy farms went into operation in 2019 than...

Thessaloniki Among Handful of European Cities to Enforce Innovative CO2 Reduction Plan

Greece's second-largest city of Thessaloniki announced on Monday that it will be among at least five European cities which will participate in the EU's ''2050 Climate-friendly Mobility in Cities" project. The aim of this ambitious environmental program is to reduce the carbon...

Sideritis: Greece's Famous Mountain Tea and its Ancient Secrets of Healing

Greeks are not known for their love for tea, as the British or the Turkish are. However, when it comes to tea, the first variety that a Greek would mention is ''chai tou vounou'', or Greek mountain tea. Sideritis, as...