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The head of the Greek chapter of Greenpeace, Nikos Charalambides, has written to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras ahead of the latter's scheduled talks with Cypriot and Egyptian leaders aimed at broadening trilateral cooperation in hydrocarbon exploration. 

A new body was recovered in the sea off the coast of Glyfada, a suburb in the south of Athens, the coast guard said on Tuesday.

The body was found floating by a man who was sailing out in his boat and immediately alerted authorities, the coast guard said.

According to initial information, it belongs to a man of about 50 years of age.

Greenpeace activists have boarded a rig that was due to sail to the Arctic to drill prospects on behalf of oil firm Statoil, the environmental group said yesterday.

The local branches of conservation groups WWF and Greenpeace have called upon Greek lawmakers to vote against an Environment Ministry bill green-lighting hydrocarbon exploration and extraction in Block 2 of the Ionian Sea, as well as the onshore blocks Arta-Preveza, Aitoloacarnania, and Northwestern Peloponnese.

Greenpeace environmentalists stepped into a French nuclear power plant today and launched fireworks, the Associated Press reported.

The aim of the ecologists was to call for a more secure storage of nuclear waste and to protest against France's dependence on nuclear energy.

Greenpeace activists paint the message "NO OIL" on the pavement outside the Enviroment Ministry in Athens on Thursday. Greenpeace activists protested over the government's plan to extract hydrocarbons, which are polluting and increasingly scarce, and its slow response to an oil spill caused by the Agia Zoni II tanker off the coast of Salamina last month.

Activists climbed trees and blocked felling machines in Poland’s primeval Bialowieza Forest on Tuesday in a bid to stop what they say is an illegal logging operation authorised by the government.

The campaigners accuse Warsaw of ignoring EU orders to protect one of Europe’s last ancient woodlands – part of a wider clash between the bloc and its biggest eastern member.

Poland said on Monday it would press on with logging the country's primeval Bialowieza forest in defiance of a ruling by the European Union's top court, saying it needed to cut down trees to defeat insect pests, according to Straitstimes.com

A broad spectrum of people rallied in central Athens Sunday in support of free expression, democracy, peace and 'green' development. About 50 nongovernmental organizations, including Greenpeace, Doctors Without Borders, ActionAid and Fair Trade Hellas, took part in this year's 'Break Free' event, which culminated in a march from Thiseio to Zappeio.

A photovoltaic facility constructed by İzmir's Bornova Municipality has attracted plaudits from environmentalist group Greenpeace, Doğan News Agency has reported.

The facility, consisting of 250 solar panels, is part of a project that was launched to make better use of energy sources.