Natural environment

The World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought (WDCD) was observed on June 17 to raise awareness of international efforts on ways to recover and restore degraded soil.

The northern port city of Thessaloniki celebrates World Environment Day with a series of events for the entire family at the Pasha's Gardens in the area of Evangelistria.

A non-government group that monitors the Amazon rainforest has said that the pace of deforestation has been increasing.

This trend is accelerating, the United Nations said, quoted by NOVA TV. 

Relentless pursuit of economic growth, twinned with the impact of climate change, has put an "unprecedented" one million species at risk of extinction, scientists said on May 6 in a landmark report on the damage done by modern civilization to the natural world.

Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria (c) and Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos (r) attend an event titled "Challenges and Opportunities Related to a New Climate Economy: Driving Innovation for Sustainable Development," at the Academy of Athens, Thursday. [Yannis Kolesidis/EPA]

A new project uniting six Mediterranean countries is working to save endangered populations of sea turtles from the combined threats of tourism, pollution and fishing.

The Chamber of Environmental Engineers of Turkey (ÇMO) wants schools to teach "zero waste" principles to make conservation, reuse and recycling inseparable parts of life in the country.

In 2018 12 million hectares of tropical rainforests or 30 football fields per minute were destroyed, the World Resources Institute reported. 3.64 million of these destroyed forests are primary and essential for climate and biodiversity, BTA reports.

According to a UN report, 30% of fish are already poisoned by plastic, and by 2050 there will be more plastic in the seas than fish. 

How many times have we been out of the store with a plastic bag, and later we are loosing it without thinking that it will remain on our planet longer than us?