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ALEXANDRA SHULMAN Back in February, it had seemed like an excellent idea to rent a house on the Greek island of Evia for the last two weeks of September...

The island's main road axis, which connects the island's south and north base, has been blocked by a landslide

Storm ELIAS is testing with floods the residents of the island of Evia since the early morning hours of Wednesday. The severe weather phenome

Heavy rain and hailstorms swept across Greece, damaging olive trees ahead of the upcoming harvest and raising concerns over the spread of disease.

Their deaths bring the total of people who have perished due to the extreme weather phenomenon 'Daniel' to six.

Most villages and the capitals of the Regional Units of Karditsa and Trikala in Central Greece are facing serious problems

Some say government assistance is lagging behind efforts to bring new life to Evia’s wildfire-ravaged olive groves.

(by Patrizio Nissirio) The skeletons of charred trees line the roadside and stretch over hills and valleys in the north of the Greek island of Evia - a terrible reminder of the fires that in August 2021 devastated these areas, burning for 10 days thous... © ANSA

ATHENS – Greece saw over 130,000 hectares of land burned by wildfires in 2021, nearly ten times the size of affected areas in the three years prior, and significantly larger than the average area burnt in the previous decade, according to a report by Statista. Part of the ‘Plant a Tree in Greece’

Nearly a year after Greece's second-largest island of Evia was devastated by some of the worst wildfires in the country's history, nature is making a slow comeback.