The European Green Deal, presented in December 2019, is a landmark set of policy initiatives by the European Commission to pursue climate neutrality by 2050. Restoring Europe’s seas and oceans, ensuring the sustainability of Europe’s blue economy sectors, as well as protecting ocean biodiversity and marine ecosystems, are outlined as priorities.

In June 2023, the DWD launched a new German website for the snow load information system for the pilot region Bavaria.

Greenland is grappling with a melting ice sheet episode, attributable to the persistent heatwave sweeping across the Arctic.   Images from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites, captured on 29 June and 3 July, show the changes in snow coverage on Nares Land, a northern Greenland island. The air temperature, about ten °C higher than the average...

This image, which visualises the Antarctic sea ice extent based on Copernicus Marine Service data, shows the negative Antarctic sea ice anomaly of June 2023, when the ice surface stood at circa 2.5 million km2 below the average area for the period.  For several weeks in a row, the negative Antarctic sea ice anomaly increased, until it reached...

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