floods

Landslides and floods caused by the heavy rainfall in the central Greek prefecture of Trikala have led residents of several communities to evacuate their homes and move to safer ground. Residents of the Pylis municipality were forced to move to...

Insurance companies may be called to pay 12.3 million euros in compensations to residents of western Attica due to the damages suffered by the deadly floods that hit the area last November, the Hellenic Association of Insurance Companies said...

The flash floods in Mandra were caused by extreme weather, but human irresponsibility and bureaucracy that led to destruction and the loss of 24 lives were even more extreme, said the team of inspectors at the General Inspector of...

Heavy rainfalls in the Rodopi prefecture on Sunday have caused serious problems as some areas have been flooded. So far fire departments across the region have pumped water from 32 homes and rescued 17 people whose homes had been flooded. According...

The municipalities of Agrinio and Messologhi in the western prefecture of Aitoloakarnania declared a state of emergency on Saturday, after heavy rains caused floods and landslides in the region. The decision was taken by the prefecture of Apostolos Katsifaras in...

Residents of the flood-stricken region of western Attica can, as of Wednesday, apply for an aid of 5,000 euros, to start rebuilding their homes. Two weeks after the floods that claimed the lives of 23 people, residents of Mandra and...

After the deadly Athens floods which claimed over 20 lives earlier this month, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told Greece’s parliament the disaster was “unprecedented”. He also had strong words for the local authorities, hitting out at “criminal and inexcusable political...

Greek emergency services discovered the body of a man beleived to be the last remaining missing person from the deadly floods that hit the town of Mandra, west of Athens, on November 15. The dead person who was found and...

"An event like the recent Greek flood cannot be called a 'natural disaster' without recognising the man-made causes exacerbating such events," according to scientists participating in the 7th annual general assembly of the European Network of Scientists for Social...

Greek meteorologists have denied that there is a link between the deadly floods in western Attica and hurricane Numa that hit western Greece a few days later. According to a statement released on Wednesday by the National Observatory in Athens,...