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Drama in Serbia, and chaos is yet to come. Warning in force: "Disaster" PHOTO/VIDEO

Published by B92 on Thu, 01/19/2023 - 09:38

New abundant inflows are arriving from Montenegro, so another embankment was built on Lim to protect Brodarevo.
Members of the Department for Emergency Situations, "Srbijavode" and the municipality are securing places where the peak of the flood wave is expected during the day, reports RTS.

The changing face of Spinalonga, ‘island of the living dead’

Published by Kathimerini on Fri, 01/06/2023 - 09:07

Immortalized in Victoria Hislop's award-winning novel, "The Island," the uninhabited islet of Spinalonga has a long and tragic past. Known by its grim epithet, the "island of the living dead," and nestled in the picturesque Elounda Bay of northeast Crete, the islet was home to one of Europe's last leper colonies, active from 1903 to 1957.

Up to a third of Slovenian caves polluted

Published by The Slovenia Times on Wed, 01/04/2023 - 08:59

Slovenia has a rich underground world with caves large and small dotting the country. They have attracted cavers, visitors and researchers from near and afar for centuries, but also people who used them as a handy way to dump their waste. As a result, 20-30% of Slovenian caves are now thought to be polluted and cleaning them is a major challenge.

Research shows Triglav, Skuta glaciers continue to shrink

Published by The Slovenia Times on Sun, 10/30/2022 - 10:29

The latest measurements of the glaciers below the Triglav and Skuta peaks have shown that the only two remaining glaciers in Slovenia have shrunk and thinned significantly this year due to the unfavourable snow and temperature conditions, and that they are under threat of disappearing.

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