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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

On 29 October 2026, Copernicus Sentinel-6B, the latest Copernicus satellite dedicated to measuring sea level, entered operational service, nearly a year after its launch on 17 November 2025. Its…