The Latest Breaking News from Greece

As the world warms and the climate changes, people are experiencing more frequent and intense extreme weather events. Just this year, heatwaves blasted southern Europe, the United States and China; wildfires lit up Greece, Canada and Maui in Hawaii; and winter storms froze large parts of the US.

The destructive power of wildfire has been a defining feature of a summer of climate extremes.

Legal action is being taken by the museum against an unnamed member of staff, who has been sacked.

Greece's miserable summer of wildfires has taken its deadliest turn with the discovery of 18 burned bodies where firefighters have been battling a blaze for several days

Firefighters have been battling blazes across the Mediterranean nation for weeks. Extreme weather and gale-force winds have worsened the fires, authorities said.

Scenes of mass destruction in Greece and Hawaii have shown us just how serious wildfires are.

Albania’s prime minister has responded to not being invited by Greece to a dinner for top officials from nine Balkan nations and the European Union by saying that in “such turbulent times” Europe’s unity is “larger than what divides us.”

The bodies are suspected to belong to migrants

Officials working to identify people found in Alexandroupolis region as firefighters battle second wave of fires