With border staff numbers dwindling by a fifth and passenger volumes up by 10%, lengthy queues at passport control were inevitable.
Scientists say Greece's water reserves could dwindle by a quarter by 2030 because of rising temperatures and a decrease in rainfall.
The ruling coalition, led by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, faces a difficult balancing act to reassure its foreign creditors and its long-suffering citizens, who have seen their incomes dwindle by a third and Greek unemployment skyrocket to 27 percent in the past three years.
It is just over a year since Jeffrey Deitch, a longtime New York gallery owner, was named director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and charged with rescuing an institution whose attendance had dwindled by 2009 to a paltry 148,616, as its endowment shrank to the lowest level since the museum's founding nearly three decades ago.
The animals have roamed the planet for nearly 2m years, but wild populations dwindled by 97% in a century, plummeting from 100,000 in 1900 to around 3,200 today.
At the Javits Center, the line of volunteers dwindled by late afternoon, when a group of young people from East Harlem were finally called for duty.
The fires were stoked with wooden fruit crates, and some demonstrators had prepared Molotov cocktails, but the number of rioters dwindled by nightfall and only a few dozen people remained.
Rajaonarimampianina's popularity with lawmakers dwindled by early 2015, and there was also an apparent split between the president and Rajoelina and his supporters.
The population has dwindled by 1.6 million since 1990, to 15.1 million, as a steady stream of people, particularly young women, have gone west in search of work.
The assets of a broader universe of quant hedge funds have dwindled by about $50 billion.
