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Make Kefalonia’s beautiful capital city of Argostoli your home while working with like-minded peers in an effort to protect the island’s sea turtle population. Healthy oceans need sea turtles to help maintain their complex ecosystem. Every day will be different as you cycle to and from morning survey shifts at nesting beaches and assess hatchling tracks. Afternoons and evenings will be just as hands-on and unique with harbor patrol, hatchling rescue and light pollution data collection. There is so much to do as you help to protect this endangered species.This program is 15 days and available for students completing grades 9,10,11,12 (ages 15-18 years old).
Amazon failing to stem ‘flood’ of fake reviews – Which?Amazon is failing to stem a “flood” of suspicious and fake reviews on its marketplace that risk misleading millions of customers, according to consumer group Which?
Greece Sees Growing Tourism Numbers from France and the UKFrench and British travelers boosted Greek tourism arrivals and revenue during the first eight months of the year, according to the Bank of Greece.The data showed that French and UK travelers contributed largely to the positive performance during the January-August period: visitors from France increased by 3.7 percent to 1,151 thousand and arrivals from the United Kingdom also rose by 19.3 percent to 2,486 thousand. Travel receipts from France rose by 13.5 percent to 825 million euros and from the United Kingdom also increased by 33.6 percent to 1,949 million euros.On the other hand, the number of visitors from Germany – Greece’s main inbound travel market – decreased by 8.5 percent to 2,659 thousand, during the first eight months of the year. Receipts from Germany fell by 4.8 percent to 1,961 million euros.
Tax bill to benefit freelancers mostFreelance professionals and all personal enterprises in general are the biggest winners of the new tax bill. As of 2020 they will enjoy a reduction in their tax bills amounting to or in some cases even exceeding 1,300 euros each, thanks to the slashing of the basic tax rate from 22 to 9 percent.The self-employed and freelance professionals with annual incomes up to 10,000 euros will see their income tax drop by about 60 percent, or 1,300 euros. Bear in mind that the self-employed who are dependent on up to three employers each are taxed from the first euro of their earnings as the tax-free threshold does not apply to them.However, in order to contain tax evasion, the government is asking freelance professionals to make online payments (via e-banking or credit and debit cards) worth a minimum of 30 percent of their annual income – or face a penalty.
Winds of change: the sailing ships cleaning up sea transportEthically minded entrepreneurs are turning back the clock to sweep the scourge of bunker fuel from the oceansThey fan out across the seas like a giant maritime dance, a ballet of tens of thousands of vessels delivering the physical stuff that has become indispensable to our way of life: commodities and cars, white goods and gas and grains, timber and technology.But shipping – a vast industry that moves trillions of pounds-worth of goods each year – is facing an environmental reckoning. Ships burn the dirtiest oil, known as bunker fuel; a waste product from the refinery process, literally scraping the bottom of the barrel, the crud in crude. It’s so thick that you could walk on it at room temperature.As a result, shipping is a major polluter – responsible for about 2.5% of global carbon emissions. Not surprisingly, innovators are starting to wonder if there is another way.“Around 90% of everything we consume [in Britain] spends some time at sea, so we urgently need to make the transportation of goods more sustainable,” says Will Templeman, an environmental scientist-turned-entrepreneur.Templeman’s eureka moment came during a visit to the supermarket when he was agonising over the food miles in his trolley. He wondered if it would be possible to transport things such as coffee and chocolate with zero emissions. Then he remembered that this was how goods used to travel. By sailing ship.A quick online search revealed that a Dutch company was doing exactly that.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid at 50: The true story of Hollywood’s greatest outlawsReleased on 24 October 1969, ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ wasn’t an immediate success with critics, yet it charmed the public.
Murder investigation under way after 39 bodies found in lorry trailer in EssexRichard Burnett, chief executive of the Road Haulage Society, said... the container appeared to be a refrigerated unit, where temperatures can be as low as -25C – and described conditions for anyone inside as “absolutely horrendous”.Home Secretary Priti Patel updated MPs with the basic facts as confirmed by the police.She said the nationalities of the victims were not yet known but she said it was believed the lorry is from Bulgaria.
In this story, Dr. Ioannis Gitas (Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Forest Management and Remote Sensing, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), Dr. Dimitris Stavrakoudis (Researcher at the laboratory of forestry management and remote sensing, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) and Dr. Dimitris Vakalis (Director General of Forests and Forest Environment of the Hellenic Ministry of Environment and Energy) talk about an operational semi-automated burned area mapping service that was developed by the Greek authorities to support effective post-fire management.
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