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Athens (Greece), Dec 23 (EFE).- Lefteris Arapakis rummages through various recycling bags at the port of Piraeus, next to Athens.For a moment, his gaze settles on the sea, where a glass bottle is floating away. He has been cleaning the Mediterranean for four years and, in the bags, there are several tons of plastic. But his eyes remain fixed on the bottle that he could not get from the water. "Sometimes it is very difficult to know if our work has any impact," Arapakis, who has just won the UN Young Champion of the Earth for Europe 2020 award, told Efe. (Camera: ALBERTO BORREGUERO. Editor: VICTORIA MORENO)
Amsterdam residents enjoyed the city's frozen canals over the weekend, even ice skating on their surface for the first time in years. The 'Beast from the East,' a massive cold front originating from Siberia that brought blizzards and freezing temperatures to much of Europe, had a silver lining. The subzero temperatures froze parts of Amsterdam's iconic Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht canals hard enough to support ice skaters.