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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
A combination of climate change, lack of rainfall and human error could turn big chunks of Greece into a desert over the next few decades, experts in the field said on World Day to Combat Desertification.
They spoke to the newspaper Kathimerini about the risks to Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean as global conditions are changing, denied by some politicians and critics who said it’s a myth.
Christos Zerefos, head of the Research Center for Atmospheric Physics and Climatology at the Academy of Athens, said, “Around 30 percent of Greece could be threatened with desertification,” the regions most at risk in the eastern Peloponnese, eastern central Greece, Macedonia and Thrace in the north, the Aegean islands and parts of Crete.
Soils will be undermined, he said, to the extent that they lose their fertility and “die.” Zerefos said the threat looms large in areas with declining rainfall levels and extreme weather conditions – floods and droughts.
The research head at the National Observatory of Athens, Christos Giannakopoulos, said those causes to blame were “climate change and erroneous human intervention.”
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
East Macedonia and Thrace aren't just destinations for history buffs and nature enthusiasts; they're also playgrounds for families seeking enriching experiences.
BOSTON – During the visit of Dimitris Koutsoumpas, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece, on Friday, April 26, at the Archdiocese in New York Archbishop Elpidophoros of America proposed the separation of Church and State in Greece.
NEW YORK – With the commitment to upgrade their relationship and to improve the services of the Municipality for expatriate Chians, the Mayor of Chios Dr.
THRU JUNE 4 NEW YORK – The third iteration of the Carte Blanche project featuring Maria Antelman with the work ‘The Seer (Deep)’ opened on April 19 and runs through June 4, Monday-Friday 9 AM-2:30 PM, at the Consulate General of Greece in New York, 69 East 79th Street in Manhattan.