Biogeography

Endowed with 25 million CO2 emission rights from the EU's greenhouse gas emissions trading system, which at current prices are valued at 1.6 billion euros, the Islands Decarbonization Fund is set to get to work, leveraging investments of €3.8 billion for the 2025-2032 period.

Chestnut-fronted macaw fly previous to the COP16 Summit in Cali, Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia, on Oct. 18, 2024

The world's biggest nature protection conference opened in Colombia on Monday with the United Nations chief calling for countries to "convert words into action" and fatten a fund seeking to address biodiversity loss.

Global warming. Disappearing plant and animal species. Fertile land turning to desert. Plastic in the oceans, on land, and the air we breathe.

These urgent environmental challenges will be in the spotlight over the next few months as the United Nations hosts four major sessions to address key threats to the planet.

Greece aims to create two large marine parks as part of a 780-million-euro ($830 million) program to protect biodiversity and marine ecosystems, with the plans to be announced at an international oceans conference starting in Athens on Tuesday.

In the debate about protecting the environment, we often forget that seven-tenths of the surface of our planet is covered by water - oceans, seas, rivers, lakes. There is also the fact that Greece, with its islands, has the 11th longest coastline in the world.

As global events increasingly threaten Western stability, governments have demonstrated no inclination to entertain a diversity of viewpoints or discussions along the way

As the Index.hr reports, there will be major shocks to food and drinking water supplies, the disappearance of unique species and the loss of landscapes that are central to human culture and leisure.

When we think of Nature, we think of luscious green forests, mountain hikes, long summer swims in clear blue waters or maybe the sound of the rain on leaves on a fresh autumn day. We think of cherished moments with our loved ones, or the time we went for a walk in the nearest spot to restructure our thoughts. But are these precious moments to be taken for granted?

Winter visitors to the Evros Delta, in Greece's northeast, on the border with Turkey, will notice an abundance of wildlife, including thousands of swans.

The most remarkable story concerns the tundra swan, known in Greek as the dwarf swan. Despite the moniker, this is still a large bird, with a wingspan of nearly 2 meters. 

Pollution and poaching have decreased the nests and breeding areas of flamingos and crested pelicans at the mouth of the Gediz River in one of the largest deltas of the eastern Mediterranean, research and monitoring studies have revealed.