The wildfire season is still ongoing in British Columbia and Alberta, leading to many evacuations. In Chateh, the wildfires are getting closer to the community, forcing residents to leave their homes.  The wildfire’s smoke is heavily affecting the air quality in many Canadian Arctic areas. In this image, acquired by the Copernicus Sentinel-3...

This image of the Italian island of Sicily, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites on 22 September at 09:20 UTC, shows the hotspots and the enormous smoke cloud generated by a wildfire burning in the Madonie Regional Park  near the city of Cefalù. On that day, more than 40 wildfires were burning simultaneously. The fire crisis...

The winter sports industry is vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and Europe is beginning to feel its first impacts.  This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 1 September, shows La Sambuy, a ski resort in the French Alps. For the first time in seventy years, the resort will not reopen for the 2024 winter...

Storm Daniel and the consequent floods caused damage to over 700 km2 in Greece's central agricultural belt. The dry soil has impeded the absorption of floodwaters, leaving some areas still submerged in several centimetres of water. This Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite image, acquired on 20 September 2023, shows remaining agricultural areas...

The way environmental problems and benefits are unevenly distributed across our societies paints a troubling picture of inequity. Typically, it's the low-income neighbourhoods that grapple with nearby hazardous waste sites, or indigenous populations that are negatively impacted by resource extraction operations such as logging, mining, and oil dril