Greece among top food wasters in Europe, EU data shows
Greece ranks among the EU’s highest food wasters, with an estimated 200 kg of food wasted per person each year, according to EU data.
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June 13, 2025 Maritime’Listen to the ocean before it falls silent’
By Martin Banks A major hospitality group is calling on chefs at all of its 580 properties, including those in the UK and Benelux, to remove threatened seafood species from their menus.
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June 12, 2025 “Listen to the ocean before it falls silent” – message of new initiative on biodiversity
By Martin Banks A major hospitality group is calling on the chefs of its 580 properties,including several in Benelux, to remove threatened seafood species from their menus.
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June 11, 2025 Greece moving ahead with marine parks
Greece is moving cautiously to finalize the creation of two new national marine parks, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced in Nice, France. He said the legal process to establish the parks in the Ionian Sea and the southern Cyclades will begin before the end of June.
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April 29, 2025 Cretan village shaken by mysterious cracks
A village near Iraklio on the island of Crete, has been placed under a state of emergency after large ground fissures caused serious damage to about 20 homes. Nine houses in Voutes have been marked as unsafe, forcing evacuations, officials said. “The cracks are essentially due to some form of landslide phenomenon,” said Efthymios Lekkas, […]
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April 19, 2025 New study on environmental compliance
By Martin Banks The quality of the maps used to assess deforestation has been assessed for the first time.
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April 13, 2025 Elafonisos Eco Week kicks off on Monday
The annual Elafonisos Eco Week will be held on Monday through Wednesday on the beautiful island off the southeastern coast of the Peloponnese.
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April 2, 2025 Cycladic islands battered by nature’s wrath
Α powerful storm swept through the Cyclades on Monday, leaving widespread damage on Paros (photo) and Mykonos, both of which were placed under a state of emergency on Tuesday until the end of April.
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March 18, 2025 Court halts luxury villas on Sifnos
Greece’s highest administrative court, the Council of State, has temporarily blocked the construction of two underground housing complexes with swimming pools on the Cycladic island of Sifnos, one of which was planned as a hotel.
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November 25, 2024 Campaign group says COP29 fails to meet climate needs
By Martin Banks Campaigners say that the COP29 climate conference left “a trail of broken promises.”
