Greece

 Coastal Hazards  Greece is a major target of coastal erosion. The country lies home to over 15,000 kilometers of total coastline. As a country that features many different Islands, as well as having much of its border surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea, Greece is at major risk to coastal hazards. Greece lies home to over 15,000 kilometers of coastline. A major issue facing Greece's coastline, is simply the fact that one-third of it is currently being lost due to erosion and rising sea levels. The major problem stems from specifically the erosion, but climate change and the rising sea levels are only speeding up the process of Greece losing its coast.   Here is a before and after image from a Greek beach cal led  Myrtos Beach, Kefalonia. As you can see, the entire sand beach is now covered due to rising sea levels and erosion. Although erosion is a naturally occurring event, climate change is accelerating  that process in Greece, at an unsustainable pace. Myrtos Beach itself is ex

 Extreme Weather In Greece Over the last forty years Greece has been experiencing an influx in extreme weather patterns. This includes multiple different types of extreme weather from strong storms and flooding to unusual heat waves.  In 2021, Greece had both an extreme storm, and a blistering heatwave to levels that Greece had not seen in ages. An intense rainstorm named "Ballos" ran through Greece in October of 2021. Storm Ballos was a extratropical cyclone that left some regions with the rainfall only from the first few hours of the storm being one-third of the entire rainfall from the previous year. Two months prior in August, Greece had also seen major heatwaves, even leading to the highest temperature ever recorded in Greece, 115 degrees Fahrenheit. Prior to the intense heatwaves of August, the summer was also riddled with dry heat, causing a summer full of wildfires.  Greece is predicted to have a gradual decrease in rainfall, as well as an increase in heatwaves and ov