Cats walk past two men drinking coffee, on the small island of Antikythera, on September 16, 2024. When winter descends on Antikythera, the already meagre population of this small island on the edge of Greece's Aegean Sea shrinks to almost nothing. A speck of land between the islands of Kythera and Crete, Antikythera, like many other islands and rural regions in Greece, is facing steady depopulation. When a national census was held in 2021, it tallied just 39 inhabitants, compared with 120 in 2011. (Photo by Aris MESSINIS / AFP) (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)