Physical geography

Turkey has experienced one of the hottest days of the year over the last week as a heatwave across the country has sparked high temperatures.

When the air temperature exceeded 44 degrees Celsius in İzmir, Muğla and Antalya provinces on the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts, public beaches, hotels and swimming pools were flooded by residents who wanted to cool off.

2019 was one of the three warmest years since the statistics were released, according to the annual report of the American Meteorological Society.

It involves more than 500 climatologists from 61 countries. According to the data, only 2015 and 2016 were warmer.

Lake Marmara, a major bird sanctuary in the western province of Manisa, has dried up due to drought.

The lake offers shelter to some 20,000 waterfowls, including endangered bird species, such as cormorants and pelicans.

People heading to the beach in Rio de Janeiro will now be required to reserve a spot on the sand via an app.

The new measures were announced on Monday by the city's mayor as part of social distancing rules put in place to stem the spread of Covid-19.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitstotakis speaks with locals on the island of Evia on Monday while surveying the damage caused by flash floods due to heavy rainfall on Sunday. A prosecutor on the island has ordered an investigation to determine whether any person or body can be held responsible for the deaths of eight people, including an infant, due to the floods.

Today the clouds will be more significant. There will also be short-term precipitation, in the afternoon it may be accompanied by thunder. There will be temporary reductions in the clouds in the hours before noon, mainly over the southwestern half of the country. A light wind will blow. The maximum temperatures will be mostly between 24° and 29°, in Sofia - around 25°. 

The National Meteorological Administration (ANM) on Thursday issued an Code Yellow advisory for enhanced atmospheric instability for the entire country, including Bucharest, until Saturday morning.

A former NASA astronaut who was the first American woman to walk in space has become the world's first woman to reach the deepest point on Earth.

36 years after my space walk, I became the first woman to dive to the deepest known spot in the ocean - the Challenger Deep. #WorldOceansDay pic.twitter.com/KWJxx4fBYR

— Kathy Sullivan (@AstroKDS) June 9, 2020

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday hailed an agreement on maritime boundaries signed between Greece and Italy on Tuesday as a key step in the country's foreign policy.
"[The agreement] acknowledges in the most formal manner that islands have the same sovereign rights as continental land masses," Mitsotakis told Parliament during a debate on education.

Turkey's multiple world-record holder and free-diving champion Şahika Ercümen has joined the fight to preserve oceans, becoming a "life below water advocate" of the United Nations.