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When and how to watch pair of rare supermoons set to grace August night sky‘It won’t happen again until 2037’ The cosmos is offering up a double feature in August: a pair of supermoons culminating in a rare blue moon.Catch the first show Tuesday evening as the full moon rises in the southeast, appearing slightly brighter and bigger than normal. That’s because it will be closer than usual, just 222,159 miles (357,530 kilometers) away, thus the supermoon label.The moon will be even closer the night of Aug. 30 — a scant 222,043 miles (357,344 kilometers) distant. Because it’s the second full moon in the same month, it will be what's called a blue moon.
Medium risk of fire on Kef tomorrow, according to civilprotection.gov.gr
Body of a 53 y-o foreign male recovered last Friday from the sea off Kopria beach, Rhodes
Olive Oil Producers in Greece Brace for Steep Production DeclineWarm weather, low fruition levels and the emergence of the fruit fly pose significant challenges to olive oil producers towards the next harvesting season.
Crete: Swimmer saved a vulture that fell into the sea and was named MathiosA swimmer at a beach in Sitia, Crete, rescued a weak and suffering vulture that fell into the sea, as a result of which it could not get up from the water and fly.Then the bather appeared, swam to the spot, and, without a second thought, saved the vulture before it drowned. The vulture was named "Matthew" and is now safe.
Boris Johnson's swimming pool plan could be thwarted by newts For great crested newts everywhere, this will feel like revenge.Three years ago Boris Johnson, when prime minister, had railed against the amphibian, blaming the protected species for the slow rate of new home building in the UK. “Newt-counting delays,” said Mr Johnson in a keynote speech in July 2020, “are a massive drag on the productivity and the prosperity of this country.”Now, the great crested newt – despite being no more than six inches long and weighing in at only a third of an ounce – is fighting back. The species is threatening to derail Mr Johnson’s scheme to build an outdoor swimming pool at his new country manor.The ex-PM had lodged a planning application with South Oxfordshire District Council to build a pool 11 metres by 4 metres (12 yards by 4 yards) at his home where he lives with his third wife Carrie and their three children.The local council’s countryside officer, however, has lodged a holding objection, protesting that the Johnsons’ pool poses a threat to the local population of newts.Great crested newts and their eggs are protected by law. It is illegal to “damage or destroy a breeding or resting place” or to “capture, kill, disturb or injure deliberately” a great crested newt.
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