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Tierra del Fuego is an archipelago at the southern tip of South America, shared by Argentina and Chile and separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan. The archipelago has a maritime…
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Longyearbyen, the largest settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, lies roughly halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. It is among the world’s northernmost settlements and is…
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Throughout much of 2026, the River Rhine has been affected by unusually low water levels following a dry spring and a hot summer. In late September, the gauge at Kaub, around 30 km south-east of…
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Between 20 and 22 October 2026, a cold spell affected large parts of the western and central Alps. Falling temperatures brought wintry conditions to higher elevations and the first snowfall of the…
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The Cordillera Blanca mountain range, in the Áncash Region of north-central Peru, holds the largest concentration of tropical glaciers in the world. Stretching for about 180 kilometres within the…
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The Roter Kamm Crater is a well-preserved impact crater in the southern Namib Desert, Namibia, formed when a meteorite struck the area several million years ago. Approximately 2.5 km wide, it is…
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Between 18 and 20 October 2026, intense rainfall caused by Storm Adam caused widespread flooding across the Valencia Region in eastern Spain, particularly in the coastal districts of La Safor and…
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On 21 October 2026, Super Typhoon Champi, known in the Philippines as Rosal, was moving west-northwest across the Philippine Sea, about 850 km east of northern Luzon, the largest island of the…
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As temperatures drop and nights grow longer in autumn, fog and snow become more common across much of Scandinavia. Fog frequently develops in valleys and low-lying areas when moist air cools near the…
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Since late July 2026, wildfires burning across Indonesia’s forests, agricultural land and peatlands have released large quantities of smoke, affecting air quality across the country and in…
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This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 16 October 2026, shows sea ice drifting through the Greenland Sea, off the eastern coast of Greenland.
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Icebergs A81 and D32 have been drifting northwards into the Scotia Sea, in the South Atlantic Ocean. In October 2022, D32 calved from the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica. In January 2023, A81…
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Delhi, the metropolitan area which includes India’s capital, New Delhi, covers a vast and densely built expanse in the plains of northern India. The Yamuna River, a major tributary of the Ganges,…
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The Itaipu Reservoir was created in 1982 after the Paraná River along the border between Brazil and Paraguay was dammed. It covers about 1,350 km2. A strip of protected forest, about 200 metres wide,…
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World Food Day, celebrated every year on 16 October, is an observance established by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to raise awareness of global food security and…
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Lake Constance, on the borders of Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, has two main basins. The larger Obersee, or Upper Lake, is linked by a short stretch of the Rhine to the smaller Untersee, or…
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On 11 October 2026, a flash flood swept down the Budhi Gandaki River in Nepal’s Gorkha District, about 100 km northwest of Kathmandu. The flood came less than two months after a a similar event…
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Floods pose serious risks to communities, homes, and livelihoods. On 13 October, the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction highlights this year's theme, “Resilience Starts at Home”, which…
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The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has just published its latest monthly Climate Bulletin, which focuses on key climate trends for September 2026.
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Mount Erebus, the southernmost active volcano on Earth, rises above Ross Island, Antarctica, reaching an elevation of approximately 3,800 metres. When the Sun sits low above the horizon at this high…
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