environment

Sustained and variable winds fuel the fire around Athens.New evacuations imposed.The EU is taking action to avoid the worst.

A large fire spreads near Athens, Greece.Two hospitals evacuated and a stadium opened to welcome the inhabitants.

Never before had the temperature of the Mediterranean been so high.The new record reached in el-Arish, Egypt, according to data released by Copernicus.

Extinction Rebellion activists protested against the cruise ship “Serenade of the Seas” by preventing it from docking in the port of Amsterdam.

In Serbia there is once again a major open conflict between the government and the peasants.The object of the dispute is the project, on which the executive led by Aleksandar Vučić has put the brand, of open a huge lithium mine in the agricultural valley of Jadar, in the western part of the country.In fact, the area contains one of the largest lithium deposits in Europe, an essential mineral for the production of electric car batteries.And while the government emphasizes the fact that the mine is a great opportunity for the economic development of the country and for the multiplication of jobs, farmers, environmentalist movements and critics get in the way, stating that the operations would produce an irreparable pollution of groundwater and rivers that cross the valley, with possible contamination of agricultural land.Today, in Belgrade, a large demonstration will take place which will bring together thousands of people, who will ask for a law that bans the extraction of lit...