Environment

According to the BBC, the mayors of Athens, Mexico City, Madrid and Paris made a pledge to ban diesel vehicles by 2025. The news source reported that the agreement between the mayors took place on Friday at the C40 Mayors Summit...

Greece moved up several places to rank 17th among the 28 European Union member-states for the adoption of climate change policies, WWF Hellas and Greenpeace Greece said on Wednesday. The ranking was based on the annual Climate Change Performance...

The French embassy, the French Institute (L’Institut français de Grèce) and the French-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce & Industry are organizing the first business forum on energy, the environment and innovation which will be held on November 24-25 in Athens. "My...

There was a 22.8 pct increase in the number of forest fires that broke out in 2016 compared with the previous year causing a more devastating effect with the area of burnt land rising by 124.5 pct, the Fire...

According to reports by Ethos newspaper, Greeks will soon have to start paying a small charge for plastic bags at supermarkets. There are many other countries in the EU that charge for plastic bags and have done so for decades. Greece's...

Firefighters are trying to contain a brush fire that broke out Tuesday afternoon on the Greek island of Syros, authorities have reported. According to the latest accounts, authorities say that the fire has been partially contained and has not spread...

U.S. District Judge John Coughenour has fined shipping magnate Evangelos Angelakos a $1.5 million payout after a jury found two ships that are part of his company guilty of pollution on the high seas, the AP has reported. The judge said it was...

Following the dreary news from the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) that forest fires in Greece has been dubbed the fifth worst year in a decade for 2016, the environmental conservation organization, WWF Greece, has called for action. At a...

The government of Greece has been slammed with a long list of violations against the environment by the local World Wildlife Fund (WWF). According to WWF Greece's annual report, the country hasn't improved much if at all from 2015's review...

On Tuesday firefighters brought the wildfire in northern Evia under control. The fire has caused damage to the environment, farms as well as the tourism and economy of Evia. The fire started near the village of Limni (lake) in the surrounding...