If an earthquake measuring over 7 on the Richter scale causes a tsunami in the Aegean, people will have just 10-15 minutes to react until the wave slams on the coast, said Costas Synolakis, Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Crete, during a speech at an event at …

The drama in West Attica floods has no end.  The bodies of more and more people who died in the floods have been recovered. The majority of them were elderly trapped in their homes, unable to escape the powerful force of the rushing waters bring mud and rubble from the …

Greece’s fires burnt 23,500 hectares of forest this so-called “fire season”, that is between May and September 2017. On the island of Zakynthos alone, more than 80 wildfires took place. The number of burned hectares is slightly lower than the annual average of 27,500 over the past decade, according to …

Athens was named the Emerging Cultural City of the Year for 2017 at the Leading Culture Destinations Awards in London on Friday. The Greek capital was lauded for managing to a maintain a thriving cultural scene despite the country’s protracted financial crisis. It was the LCD Travellers’ Award. The award …

A rare weather phenomenon occurred. A stunning waterspout was formed in the sea area off Volimes region in the north-west of the island of Zakynthos in the Ionian Sea. The phenomenon appeared at 6:30 in the afternoon on Monday. The rare phenomenon was captured by the lens of a local …

French President Emmanuel Macron opened his keynote speech on the hill of Pnyx with a lengthy paragraph in Greek. “Two and a half thousands years ago, Athenians invented democracy here on hill of Pnyx,” Macron read. “The fact that I speak on this hill in front of you is a …

August says Goodbye with sudden storms, hail and strong winds. Basements and streets were flooded, power was cut, people trapped in elevators, vineyards were damaged. It poured down in Larissa, Central Greece, in Grevena and Kastoria, a little up in the north, in Western Macedonia. Fire brigades had to rush …

Southern Europe and British Columbia have been devastated by wildfires this summer. And they’re not the only ones – it seems like much of the world is ablaze right now, and this could be the new normal. Scientists have long predicted that global warming would lead to more wildfires in …

Last month was the hottest July since 1880, according to Greek official records, with NASA data indicating that, on a global level, July was one of the hottest months on record. With two back-to-back heat waves last month, temperatures reached nearly 46 degrees Celsius (114.8 Fahrenheit) on Crete. “In early …

Jelly fish comes in Small, Medium and Large size. And sometimes in Extra-Large, like the one  teenager Kosmas fished the other day at the beach of Akoli in Achaia: a perfect shaped and well-developed example of gelatin and tentacles estimated to weigh 4.5 to 5 kilos in total. Kosmas and …

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is wary of business over-dependence on China. She is especially concerned about the Chinese investments in Greece where Cosco has been winning the cream of the cream in public privatization tenders. In an interview with German weekly magazine WirtschaftsWoche, Merkel said Europe needed to be wary about …

Heat wave goes, stormy winds coming from the North. Sharp temperature drop. A tiny breeze started to blow from South/South-West around 4 0′ clock in the afternoon, Sunday . It was not exactly “cooling” but it did have a small effect and gave hope that the suffocating  heat wave of …

Air temperature above 38 degrees Celsius, humidity and wind stillness will be the characteristics of the weather expected in the next days and week. The heatwave sweeping across Europe and USA will reach also Greece. According to Greek meteorologists, temperature will gradually rise as of today, Thursday, to reach 38-39 …

Greece has blocked a European Union statement at the United Nations criticising China’s human rights record, a decision EU diplomats said undermined efforts to confront Beijing’s crackdown on activists and dissidents. The EU, which seeks to promote free speech and end capital punishment around the world, was due to make …

On the historical day, May 31 2017, At 12:06 a.m. ET, the President of the United States Donald Trump tweeted covfefe his 32 million Followers on Twitter: “Despite the constant negative press covfefe” Τhe tweet was posted at 12:06 a.m. ET. By 6 a.m. that tweet had been deleted. Too …

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Europe can no longer completely rely on its allies. Speaking to around 2,000 people in a beer tent in Munich during a campaign event, Merkel said that European must take their fate into their own hands. The statement was understood as against US president …

Atomic scientists say the world is inching closer to an apocalypse, partly due to the words and actions of US President Donald Trump. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group of nuclear scientists who have been assessing global security for 70 years, said they were moving their symbolic Doomsday …

In a guest contribution to German business weekly WirtschaftsWoche, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Barack Obama spell out the importance of trans-Atlantic relations, and urge progress on climate change and a free-trade deal. Germany and the United States are deeply linked together: Our joint history has led us …

This must be the joke in the history of Nobel Prize. Crisis-torn European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2012,  ‘for its historic role in uniting the continent’. Unless the Nobel Prize committee members had a sudden attack of a cynicism, KTG would say that Barroso, Van Rompuy & Co …

What is a Greek family worth, if mom, dad and kids cannot swim in the sea? Already in the 1980’s Andreas Papandreou* launched the slogan of Greek summer identity: “Swimming for the Common People!” (Τα μπάνια του λαού). A socialist concept for summer where every Greek, especially low-income families, had the right to affordable summer …