Iceberg
From farm to plate: How prices triple
Greek consumers often pay nearly three times the price for fruits or vegetables that producers receive when the produce is harvested from the fields. However, the bulk of this price difference doesn't make its way into the pockets of the producers. In reality, producers only retain a profit equivalent to roughly 8 to 9 percent of the final consumer price.
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The tip of the iceberg
The sprawl of loungers on Greece's beaches is the tip of the iceberg. Taking over beaches with bars and umbrellas is the extension of widespread real estate construction all along the coastline, despite it being strictly prohibited.
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The enduring allure of the Titanic
Since it sank on its maiden voyage more than a century ago, the Titanic has maintained an unshakeable grip on the public imagination.
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Drama on the Atlantic: The search for the missing submarine is still ongoing
There are five people in the submarine.
Contact with the small submarine was lost about an hour and 45 minutes after it dived on Sunday. A rescue operation has been launched, but so far there is no sign of the submarine, the BBC reported.
As of Monday afternoon, the crew were thought to have had about four days' worth of oxygen left.
Iceberg Larger Than Majorca Broke off from Northern Edge of Antarctica
A mammoth slab of ice has separated from the frozen edge of Antarctica in the Weddell Sea, giving birth to the world's largest iceberg, the European Space Agency (ESA) said in a statement on Wednesday.
The Enormous Iceberg Near Antarctica is now Moving in Open Sea
The huge iceberg, which a week ago separated from Antarctica, began to move to the open sea, world agencies reported.
The huge piece of ice weighs 1 trillion tons and has a size of 5800 sq. km.
The latest satellite images show that the distance between the iceberg and the ice of Antarctica is increasing. The photographs were taken with the Deimos 1 satellite.
Huge Chunk of Ice Breaks off Antarctica
A giant iceberg twice the size of Luxembourg has broken off an ice shelf on the Antarctic peninsula and is now adrift in the Weddell Sea.
"It is a really major event in terms of the size of the ice tablet that we've got now drifting away," said Anna Hogg, an expert in satellite observations of glaciers from the University of Leeds.
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One of the Largest Icebergs Ever is About to Break off Antarctica
One of the largest icebergs ever recorded — 2,500 square miles is about to break off Antarctica, according to the European Space Agency. The iceberg could speed up the break-off of other ice chunks, eventually eating away at a barrier that prevents ice from flowing to the sea.
Iceberg tourists flock to Newfoundland town
A small town in Newfoundland, Canada, has become a sudden tourist spot thanks to a new visitor – one of the first icebergs of the season.
Canada’s CBC News said that over the Easter weekend, the Southern Shore highway near the town of Ferryland was blocked with traffic as photographers – professional or amateur – pulled up to snap the hulking ice mountain.
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Cretan natural mineral water top brand in the world
The Cretan Bottled Natural mineral water Zaro received the golden award at the Berkeley Spring’s International Water Tasting event. The award ceremony took place in West Virginia, and the Cretan water, which comes from natural springs at the foot of Mount Psiloritis, took top honours among 600 other brands from around the globe.