The Asopos tragedy

A HISTORIC press conference took place in Oinofyta, northern Attica, on February 8, when Environment Minister Tina Birbili sat shoulder to shoulder with Margarita Karavasili and Andreas Andreadakis, her special secretaries for environmental audits and water, to address the tragedy that is the Asopos River.

Regulating pollutants in the Asopos River

ENVIRONMENT Minister Tina Birbili on April 19 gave her second Asopos River press conference, announcing stricter limits on pollutants in surface waters.

How many Hinkleys are there in Greece?

Fishermen crowd around suffocated fish in the Maliakos Gulf last month. Environmental transgressions that go unchecked can lead to collapses of industries like fishing, farming and tourism

Greece's dead sea

AS FISH-eating Greeks near the end of their religious fasting, fishermen and their wider community dependent on the Maliakos Gulf face a bleak year ahead as an algal bloom, now two months old, continues to devastate stocks.

Heavy metals at Thiva's gates

Not quite as idyllic as it seems: a field of carrots next to an industrial plant in heavily polluted Oinofyta

Ray of hope for global food crisis

Egyptian farmers work at an organic farm in west Nobarawa. To tackle the global food production problem, the West needs to help African countries build the infrastructure that will increase the production of organic food

Yoghurt scandal trickles on

FAGE-made yoghurts in which pieces of glass were found. FAGE said the batches in question are Junior yoghurt cartons with banana, caramel, cherry, orange and strawberry flavours and added vitamins A+D, which expire on December 4-7 and have gone on sale in Greece and Cyprus.