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Why Attica and Boeotia burned: There was air superiority in the sky, but the battle on the ground led to deafeat

Two dead, over 11,200 hectares burned and homes destroyed: professor Costas Synolakis explains why Greece's powerful aerial fleet couldn't stop the Attica-Boeotia fire, and what needs to change in prevention, ground forces and forest governance

Megafires, Europe’s new nightmare: The phenomenon of pyrocumulus clouds and the consequences

Greece has experienced two of the three worst megafires that occurred in the Mediterranean (Evros, 2023 and Evia, 2021) – The causes of the violent change in the profile of fires and the pessimism of scientists