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Stromboli Volcano is located on Stromboli Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, north of Sicily, and is part of Italy’s Aeolian Islands. It is one of the country’s most active volcanoes, known for its…
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In southern Poland, the rural municipality of Gmina Sułoszowa is known for its remarkably elongated agricultural plots.
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Celebrated every year on 9 May, Europe Day marks the anniversary of the Schuman Declaration of 1950, which laid the foundations of our European Union.
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The Passage du Gois, which links the island of Noirmoutier to the mainland in western France, is an intertidal causeway regularly submerged at high tide, restricting access to and from the island.
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With a surface area of approximately 600 square km and approximately 78 km in length, Lake Balaton is the largest lake in central Europe. It supports a large population of plant and animal species.…
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This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 9 October 2022, shows the Belgian part of the Ardennes Forest, a vast area home to a wide variety of flora, fauna, hills, and…
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Lake Balkhash is one of the largest lakes in Asia and the 15th largest lake in the world.Even though the lake is in a desert, it is fed by several rivers and serves as a habitat for 20 species of…
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On 13 May 2020, one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites captured this cloudless image of the Corinth Canal in Greece.The Corinth Canal is an artificial canal that connects the Gulf of Corinth…
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The intense heatwave gripping most of Europe in June 2022 has caused several temperature records to be broken. Even the Arctic Circle has been affected: temperatures in the far north of Norway…
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This image, acquired on 25 August 2020 by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites and processed by Iban Ameztoy, shows a detail of the northern edge of Severny Island, the northern island of the…
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The Elbe River estuary is one of the most beautiful areas in Northern Germany. It features multiple steadily moving channels where large amounts of sediment accumulate each year due to river…
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Grenen is the northernmost point of Denmark. This area is protected as a Natura 2000 site under the EU's Habitats Directive, as it is an important migration site for a wide range of bird species.The…
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The Batagaika Crater is the largest permafrost crater in the world and holds clues to prehistoric life on Earth. This massive landslide is located in Siberia. It formed in the 1960s when…
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On 23 November 2020, the European Environment Agency published the “Air quality in Europe” 2020 report, a high level report in which an annual assessment of the status and impacts of air quality in…
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The Bay of Algeciras, in the south of Spain’s autonomous region of Andalusia, hosts two important port cities: Algeciras and the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The Bay has been a hub…
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Mount Erebus is the second highest and most active volcano of Antarctica. It is also the southernmost active volcano on Earth.Its summit temperature averages between -20°C during the summer and -50°C…
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Iceland is Europe's second largest island. You will find it at the southern tip of the Arctic Circle. Even though it is so close to the Arctic, Iceland has a surprisingly mild climate, because the…
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The Mackenzie river is the second longest river in North America, and its tributaries, the smaller rivers that connect to it, run through a fifth of Canada. The river originates in Great Slave Lake…
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The Bełchatów coal mine is a large open-pit extraction facility in Poland, in operation since 1955. It represents one of the largest coal reserves in Poland having estimated reserves of 1,930 million…
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The Rio de la Plata estuary is one of the largest ones in the world.A constant mixing of freshwater and seawater in this area is visible from space, as shown in the image captured by one of the…
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