The General Secretariat for Civil Protection has prepared a study focusing on contigency plans for a possible future eruption of the Santorini volcano.

The Tourism Ministry will launch the public awareness campaign "Plastic-Free Santorini" aiming at spreading the message for the reduction of the overuse of plastics throughout Greece.

Robots used in last week’s international oceanographic seabed survey of Kolumbo, a submarine volcano about 7 kilometers northeast of the island of Santorini, discovered hitherto unknown hydrothermal vents forming cylindrical chimney structures, around which are flourishing bacterial communities.