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The Alpine Arc is among the regions most threatened by climate change. Over the past two decades, the glaciers of this iconic mountain range in the heart of Europe have lost about a third of their…
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This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image acquired on 17 August 2024 shows the Costa Blanca, an area severely affected by the drought in Spain. The prolonged lack of rainfall has led to significant water…
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This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 20 August 2024, shows severe flooding caused by the overflowing of the Indus River south of Kandhkot, a small town in Pakistan's…
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Stung Treng is a province in northeastern Cambodia, renowned for its rich biodiversity and extensive forests. The area is home to a variety of ecosystems, including dense rainforest, rivers, and…
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For weeks, wildfires in northern Canada have been spewing vast amounts of smoke which has travelled thousands of kilometres across the Atlantic Ocean, darkening the skies of Western Europe. The plume…
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This image, acquired on 18 August 2024 by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites, shows a plume of smoke 130 km long rising from the Portuguese island of Madeira as a result of a large forest…
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This image, acquired on 26 July 2024 by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites, shows the island of El Hierro. El Hierro is the smallest of the Canary Islands (Spain). It is known for its rich…
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This image, acquired by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite on 16 August 2024, shows the eye of Ampil, a typhoon which formed in the Pacific Ocean earlier that month. The storm rapidly intensified,…
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Ahead of the upcoming launch of the Copernicus Sentinel-2C, we take a closer look at Kourou, the headquarters of the Guiana Space Centre. Kourou is a coastal town in north-central French Guiana, an…
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The Danube River has been affected by significantly reduced water levels, coinciding with the prolonged heat wave impacting Eastern Europe. Recent measurements show that the river's level in Romania…
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On 11 August, a large wildfire burned out of control in Attica, Greece. The fire has affected at least 10,000 hectares and forced thousands of people to flee their homes. This Copernicus Sentinel-2…
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During the summer of 2024, the Svalbard Archipelago (in Arctic Norway) is confronted with a new record episode of ice sheet melting. According to the Laboratory of Climatology and Topoclimatology at…
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Over the past few weeks, a phytoplankton bloom has been observed in the northern Adriatic Sea. High temperatures and freshwater inputs from recent heavy rainfall have favoured the bloom. The…
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The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has recently released its latest monthly Climate Bulletin, which highlights that July 2024 was the second warmest July on record globally. Air temperatures…
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On 7 August 2024, Canada has been affected by an intense heatwave and several wildfires. The temperature in Inuvik, an Arctic town located less than 100 km from the Arctic Ocean, reached a record…
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The prolonged drought in Morocco is causing serious problems for the agricultural sector. Local Authorities predict that the 2024 wheat harvest will be reduced by almost 50 per cent. This image,…
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Biomass burning is common in South America at this time of year. In the summer of 2024, the phenomenon was particularly intense, with the number of fires rising to a record high for the month of…
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The Zongo glacier is located in the Huayna Potosi massif in Bolivia. The glacier is 3 km long and has a surface area of 2.4 km2 This is a 3D rendering of an image acquired by Sentinel-2 on July 31,…
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Vis is one of the most distant inhabited islands from the Croatian coast. In the captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2 on August 4, 2024, we can observe increased marine traffic and discern the wake…
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The recent fire that broke out in the province of Cuenca left over 1500 hectares burned. On July 31, 2024, Copernicus Sentinel-2 captured an image that depicts the extent of the burned area. This is…
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