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New York Times | "Athens Is Only Getting Hotter. Its New ‘Chief Heat Officer’ Hopes to Cool It Down."
“Eleni Myrivili has been tasked with finding ways to help the Greek capital cope with ever-hotter heat waves that are expected to be part of life for years to come.”
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Bloomberg | "Greece Invests Over €2 Billion to Fight Climate Change Effects"
“Greece is investing €2.1 billion ($2.27 billion) to protect the nation from natural disasters caused by climate change as wildfires are already breaking out ahead of fire season, which normally starts in May. The Aegis program is the first of its kind in Greece.”
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Financial Times | "Greek Feta Makers Reel From Historic Floods"
“Some 80,000 sheep and goats perished in the region producing 40% of soft cheeses. About a quarter of the land used for agriculture and industrial production in Thessaly was inundated — and will probably not be fertile for years to come — along with hundreds of buildings, with many bridges and parts of the country’s rail and road networks destroyed.”
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Politico | "Supercharged Storm Wrecks Greece’s Breadbasket for Years to Come"
“Experts warn that with silt and mud settling across fields, the flooding could affect soil quality for years to come. Efthymios Lekkas, a disaster management expert, told state television that it would take at least five years for the plain to become fertile again.”
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The Christian Science Monitor | "In Greece, Iconic Olive Crop Becomes a Climate Change Front Line"
“Despite a history spanning thousands of years, these culinary pillars of Greek identity are under threat. Small farmers expect this year’s harvest season, which got underway in November, to be one of the worst years on record, thanks to climate change and the irregular seasonal shifts it has wrought upon the flowering process and fruit development.”
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CNN | "'Fighting a War in Peacetime': Greek PM on Impacts of Climate Change"
“Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis delivered a speech acknowledging the devastating impacts of climate change on his country, after a summer that brought some of the worst wildfires and floods in Greece's history.”