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Greece Heat Advisory Warns of Blistering Temperatures

2022-07-23 by Phil Butler

Thessaloniki

The National Observatory in Athens issues a heatwave warning until the end of July. The northern hemisphere is blistering under record heat.

Tags: Fire, global warming, Greece temperatures, Greece wildfires, heat advisory, heat warning, heat wave, UK heat

Greece’s All Powerful Tourism and Hospitality Leaders to Resurrect Evia

2021-08-30 by Phil Butler

Elevated Theoharis

With wide swaths of Greece burnt to a crisp, and COVID still rampaging across the country, some Greek leaders seem to think they are gods.

Tags: Agioi Taxiarches Church, Alexandros Vassilikos, Athens protests, Evia Island, Evia wildfires, Fr. Ioannis Siafleki, global warming, Greece COVID-19, Greece tourism, Greece wildfires, Grigoris Tasios, Harry Theoharis, Kokkinomilia, tourism

Greece’s Mitsotakis Apologizes For “Somebody” Letting His Country Burn

2021-08-10 by Phil Butler

Kyriakos Mitsotakis

As Greece wildfires destroy his country, Greece’s Prime Minister apologizes for governmental failures. Meanwhile, firefighters battle the blazes.

Tags: climate change, Elia Island, global warming, Greece wildfires, Mitsotakis, Nikos Hardalias, UN, wildfires

Armageddon 2021: Welcome to Greece

2021-08-06 by Phil Butler

Armageddon

COVID, the waves, the Delta variant, heat waves, wildfires, mediocre leaders, Greece is set for Armageddon.

Tags: climate disaster, conservation, coronavirus Greece, coronovirus, Delta variant, EODY, global warming, Greece, Greece COVID-19, Greece tourism, Greece wildfires, Greta Thunberg, heatwaves, Hellenic National Meteorological Service, HNMS, tourism, wildfires

Turkey Wildfires Are the Worst Ever – Experts Say It’s Only the Beginning

2021-07-31 by Phil Butler

1500 hectares burn

Wildfires are ravaging areas of southern Turkey. According to the reports, unprecedented fires have forced tourists and locals to evacuate.

Tags: Antalya, European Space Imagine, fires, forecasts, global warming, heatwave, Mugla, Turkey, Turkey tourism, Turkey weather, Turkey wildfires, visit turkey, weather, weather warnings, WMO

The WWF Warns Us the Mediterranean Is Becoming Tropical Sea

2021-06-14 by Argophilia Travel News

Moray Eel

A new WWF report says the Mediterranean is quickly becoming a tropical sea, with temperatures rising 20% faster than the global average.

Tags: Biological Diversity COP15, climate action, climate change, ecology, global warming, Mediterranean, oceanography, sustainability, WWF, ” Blueprint for a Living Plane

Greece Expecting Warmest January in the Last 50 Years

2021-01-08 by Argophilia Travel News

Hersonissos

According to Greece’s National Observatory of Athens the country will experience the highest January temperatures of the last 50 years.

Tags: Crete weather, global warming, Greece weather, Greece weather conditions, Heraklion temperatures, heraklion weather, record January, record temperatures, warm front, weather alert, weather records, winter weather

Ocean Rebellion Launches Protests Against Cruise Industry

2020-10-01 by Phil Butler

Ocean Rebellion

Ocean Rebellion just launched a night-time protest in Weymouth in order to reveal the “dirty truth of the cruise shipping industry”.

Tags: Carnival Cruise Lines, Cruise industry, cruise line pollution, cruise lines, cruise ships, Cunard, Environment, Extinction Rebellion, global warming, Marella Cruises, Mein Schiff 6, Ocean Rebellion, P&O, pollution, TUI, TUI Cruises

Sustainable Tourism May End Up With a Regulatory Solution

2020-02-06 by Phil Butler

Tourist throng

The private sector cannot be counted upon to provide a truly sustainable solution for tourism. It seems clear lawmakers will need to step in.

Tags: Environment, global warming, Hilton, Okinawa, PhocusWire, sustainability, sustainable business, sustainable tourism, tourism trensds, Travel Mole, world tourism

The Dangers of the Mediterranean Basin’s Upside Down Weather Forecast

2019-07-29 by Phil Butler

Kos draught

Over the weekend we reported another heatwave gripping Greece and much of Europe. But the overall picture for of extreme dry contrasted by deadly torrential rain is cause for alarm according to many scientists.

Tags: Europe heat wave, France floods, Germany floods, Germany heat wave, global warming, Greece heat wave, Greece weather, Italy heat wave, Italy weather, Mediterranean Weather Forecast, Norway heat wave, Poland floods, UK heat wave, weather warning

Solving Heraklion’s and Crete’s Age Old Water Deficit

2018-04-22 by Phil Butler

Sandstorm

Recent meetings by Heraklion Mayor Vassilis Labrinos reflect the almost desperate need to solve the city’s ever-expanding freshwater situation. Here are some news and ideas on the water crisis in Crete. 

Tags: Crete water, desalination, EMVIS, global warming, Heraklion, Heraklion municipality, SYCHEM, water resources

Study Reveals Greece In Environmental Crosshairs

2018-02-28 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Greece heat wave

According to a new scientific study, Athens will be the worst hit of all European capitals where future droughts and heatwaves are concerned. Researchers at Newcastle University sourced all the available climate models (based on three scenarios) in order to predict how weather patterns will evolve for some 571 European cities between 2050 and 2100.

Tags: Athens climate, climate change, drought, floods, future climate, global warming, Greece climate, Greece drought, Greece floods, heatwave, Selma Guerreiro

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