Oceans

The man from Crete underwent two surgeries

A parasite found dwelling on garfish species in Mediterranean waters, home to an exceptional diversity of marine life, has been named after the southern province of Adana after it was detected in the waters near the province's Yumurtalık district.

"This parasite will be called 'Caligus Adanensis' from now on," said Argun Akif Özak, an academic from the Çukurova University.

The incident occurred on the southeastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula

The incident occurred over the Pacific Ocean

The Mediterranean province of Antalya, the heartland of the Turkish tourism industry, was the top destination for Germans making summer holiday reservations in the January-February period, according to numbers from the German Travel Association (DRV).

The British carrier will possibly anchor at Souda Bay & Piraeus

Greek health authorities on Wednesday started vaccinating the inhabitants of the eastern Aegean island of Kastellorizo, as part of a new drive to inoculate the population of islands with less than 1,000 residents against Covid-19.

Turkey issued new navigational telexes reserving parts of the northern and eastern Aegean for military exercises over the next couple of weeks, in a move seen as restoking tension between Athens and Ankara following a brief lull.

The island of Crete recorded the highest temperature but also the highest volume of rainfall in 2020, according to a report presented by the National Observatory of Athens on Tuesday.

The report presented last year's records for rainfall and temperature, based on data collected by its automated network of weather stations, NOA-meteo.

An earthquake measuring 4,8 on the Richter scale was registered to the south of the Greek island of Crete, local news wires reported minutes ago. The epicenter was at 20 km to the south of small island of Gavdos, the southernmost point of Greece.  

So far no casualties or destructions have been reported.