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Highly venomous jellyfish have stung more than 3,000 people on Australia's northeastern shores in just a few days, authorities said Jan. 7, forcing the closure of several beaches.

A female bear was found decapitated and mutilated in a field near the village of Pylorio in Western Macedonia on Christmas Eve, according to a statement by a local conservation group on Friday morning, state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported.

Olive oil produced from the crops of one of the world’s oldest trees was sold for a high price at an auction held on Nov. 17 in Turkey’s Aegean province of İzmir.

A Turkish mother has been found alive after she went missing for three days in the wild, telling journalists through her brother that a bear and wolf approached but did not harm her. 

A small aircraft set off on a very special mission off the southern coast of Crete on June 3, to zigzag over hundreds of square kilometers just 180 meters from the surface of the sea for four to eight hours a day, through the summer.

AFP - More than 300 sea turtles from an endangered species were found dead on a beach in southern Mexico, trapped in a banned type of fishing net, environmental authorities said.

"It's a funny paradox with the carob tree: On the one hand it is neglected, and on the other it is deeply entrenched in the conscience of the Cretan people," says Korina Miliaraki, president of the Agritourism Union of Crete and the Epimenides Cultural Society of Panormos, and the individual spearheading a campaign to get the carob tree onto the UNESCO List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage o

Members of the Hellenic Navy's underwater demolition teams have carried out a controlled detonation of two unexploded World War II artillery shells found in the sea off the southern coast of Cephalonia, it emerged on Saturday. 

RIGA, July 25 (Xinhua) -- A young black vulture born and bred at Riga Zoo has been sent this week to Bulgaria where it will be released into the wild as part of a reintroduction program, the zoo informed on Wednesday.

The olive-growing area of Amfissa at the foot of the world-famous 4th-century BC Delphi Sanctuary in central Greece, is to become a global ambassador for olives and olive products thanks to a proposal by Greek scientists that has been endorsed by Yale University.