Environmental social science

At least 415 workers have died in the first three months of 2016, according to a monthly report recently released by a non-governmental organization dealing with worker health and safety issues, with at least 157 worker deaths in March alone.

A first Syrians arrived in Germany from Istanbul April 4, while a first group of migrants arrived in Turkey from Greece on the same day under an EU-Turkey migrant deal aimed at stopping the influx of refugees into Europe.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday that the refugee crisis had only been postponed, not solved.

German newspaper Die Welt published an article on refugee crisis warning of violent incidents in Idomeni.

According to the article, the German Federal Police stresses at a confidential report that there will be violent incidents at closed borders in Greece.

Alternate Minister for Migration Policy Yiannis Mouzalas on Tuesday in an interview with Alpha TV expressed his fears that children may die at Idomeni.

Mr. Mouzalas admitted that, although the state should be 24-hour “present”, this has not been achieved due to his own oversights, too, stressing that Greece has never been called to deal with such a crisis in the past 50 years.

Shipping and Island Policy Minister Theodoros Dritsas told SKAI TV that the government is planning to send refugees and immigrants all over the country, if European Union fails to find a common solution to stem refugee flow.

The biodiversity in Turkey is at risk, according to an analysis based on a report released by the Yale University that ranked countries' environmental performance.

There is much talk in Europe about the need to cooperate with Turkey over the refugee crisis. Germany is one of the countries spearheading this argument. The only problem is that not all EU members agreed on what this means. 

Yoghurt empire founder Hamdi Ulukaya rallied the corporate world to aid refugees on Jan. 19, as the world's rich and powerful gathered in the exclusive Swiss ski resort of Davos to discuss how to resolve some of the world's greatest challenges.

Alternate Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas gave a press conference on Sunday on migration. He addressed the need for more effective controls in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon that need to be carried out so as to have more accurate registration and documentation of refugees.