Aruba is a Caribbean island located off the coast of Venezuela. Its wetlands are invaluable natural treasures, playing a vital role in the island's ecosystem and beyond. They serve as critical habitats for a wide range of wildlife, from migratory birds to endemic species, providing them shelter, breeding grounds, and food. Four of Aruba's...

This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites on 8 December, shows Storm Jasper as it passed northeast of Australia.  Jasper is a tropical storm which the beginning of the tropical cyclone season in the southern Pacific. According to the latest forecast from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Jasper is expected to...

Over the weekend of 2-3 December, a heavy snowstorm hit Munich, Germany's third-largest city. The storm brought a record-breaking amount of snow for a month of December, with almost half a metre of snowfall. This was also the heaviest snowstorm to affect the region since March 2006. As a result of the weather forecast for Tuesday 5...

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has recently released its latest monthly Climate Bulletin, which highlights that November 2023 was the warmest November on record globally. This data visualisation, based on ERA5 C3S data, illustrates the surface air temperature anomaly (ATA) from January 1940 to November 2023. It shows that the ATA...

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