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Roof greening is as old as the hills, literally. So called human civilisation has passed through three distinct stages of development1 The first stage of development and differentiation from the rest of the animal kingdom was the rise of the...

Published: November 22, 2009 Joe Witte hopes that people watching his television forecasts in the United States will think about more than just the weather when they leave home in the morning. Two years ago, Mr. Witte, a meteorologist for...

Maria Damanaki was yesterday nominated European commissioner for maritime affairs and fisheries, a key portfolio in Brussels with particular interest for Greece, where commercial shipping makes a significant contribution to the economy. Synaspismos in the early 1990s, was named as...

The key changes to the bill, heralded by Environment, Energy and Climate Change Minister Tina Birbili last month, are the inclusion of any areas of burned forestland in the national land register within a month of the blaze and the...

In fact, Andreas Andreadakis, general secretary for water at the ministry, has even said that it has not been ascertained that there is any water shortage in Thessaly. On the other hand, Infrastructure Minister Dimitris Reppas insists the project will...

Cassandra, the first of Halkidiki�s three prongs, was devastated by a wildfire in August 2006, which destroyed some 5,000 hectares of dense forest. However, Halkidiki Prefect Asterios Zografos revealed yesterday that about 85 percent of the forest has begun to...