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Mornos Decline: Satellite Images Show Athens’ Critical Water Loss

The satellite images of Lake Mornos side by side clearly illustrate the dramatic decline in the size of the artificial reservoir, located in Central Greece, a primary and vital source of water for Athens. Between January 2022 and October 2025,...

Climate Crisis Intensifies: Hottest Summer on Record

Summer 2024 was the Earth's hottest on record as the climate crisis intensifies according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service. It was also the warmest across Europe at 1.54C above the 1991-2020 long-term average, exceeding the previous record from 2022. August...

Will 2024 Be Earth’s Warmest Year on Record?

It had been more than a year since Earth had set a monthly global temperature, but this changed in July, when we experienced our two warmest days ever. Now, Copernicus scientists are concerned 2024 will become the warmest year...

World Recorded Hottest Day Ever

Sunday, July 21st was the hottest day ever recorded, with Monday set to break the short-lived record according to preliminary data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, which has tracked such global weather patterns since 1940. The global...

Earth Records Hottest May on Record

May 2024 was the hottest May on record globally, according to Europe's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). That makes May the 12th month in a row to set record heat. "It is shocking but not surprising that we have reached...

Earth Day: Europe Is the Fastest-Warming Continent

Europe is the fastest-warming continent and its temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average, two top climate monitoring organizations reported on Monday, warning of the consequences for human health, glacier melt, and economic activity. The latest five-year averages...

Wildfire in Evros, Greece Burning for 12th Day

The wildfire in Evros in northeastern Greece showed no signs of abating Wednesday despite the efforts of a multinational firefighting force. Now in its twelfth day, the blaze that began near the port city of Alexandroupolis on Aug. 19 joined...

Scientists Reveal This Winter Was Warmest on Record in Europe

Scientists from the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service announced recently that the period between December 2019 and February 2020 was the warmest winter ever to be recorded in Europe. This shocking revelation comes as no surprise, since most of...

Aegean University Students Win Prestigious Award at European Science Competition

Four students from the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering of the University of Aegean recently won second place in the Europe-wide "Galileo & Copernicus Innovation Challenge" competition held in Helsinki, Finland. The prestigious competition was held within the framework...