This image, captured by a Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite on 11 August at 00:39 UTC, shows Typhoon Lan, currently located to the east of Japan's Ogasawara Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Typhoon Lan has reached peak wind speeds of 126 kilometres per hour. It should be making landfall over the larger Japanese islands on 15 August, with forecasts...

This image, captured on 10 August by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites, shows the Iberian Peninsula as it is undergoing the third severe summer heatwave. Among the affected regions, Spain suffers the most from the effects of the high temperatures. The Spanish Meteorological Agency (AEMET) has issued red alerts, indicating an extreme...

Numerous fires are devastating Hawaii. Maui, one of the islands in the archipelago, is the hardest-hit area. Approximately 14,000 homes have lost power, and at least six people have died. Evacuation orders have been issued on the Big Island as a result of the fires which have affected communication and infrastructures. According to NOAA, the...

Imagery captured by Copernicus Sentinel satellites have a myriad of practical applications. Any one of the six Copernicus Services, each of them specialised in capturing and processing a specific type of data, allows scientists, national, regional and local authorities, as well as academics to understand the conditions on the Earth’s surface.

This visualisation, based on data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), shows the surface air temperature anomaly for July 2023 in Europe.  With a deviation of over 0.7°C from the average of the years 1991 to 2020, July 2023 marks the warmest July ever recorded.  Numerous regions in the Northern Hemisphere, particularly in southern...