This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 7 May 2023, shows the Island of Brač, a tourist destination in Croatia's Dalmatian archipelago.  Thanks to its natural beauty and biodiversity, the island is part of the Natura 2000 network. It offers diverse landscapes, from limestone cliffs to rolling hills and lush...

Temperatures above reference average values continue to be recorded in the northern hemisphere. According to the latest climate bulletin published by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), April 2023 has been the fourth warmest April globally. In particular, air temperatures were above average for the western Mediterranean basin, with...

While satellite imagery and other products have generally been available since the 1980s, the EU’s Copernicus programme has ushered in a whole new era of freely-accessible Earth Observation (EO) imagery and data.

The smoke clouds generated by the wildfires ongoing in Canada reaches the Atlantic Ocean.  Canada continues to be ravaged by severe wildfires. As of 10 May 2023, more than 100 fires are ongoing across the Alberta Province, and have burned 390,000 hectares in less than a week (an area larger than Luxembourg).  The fires have forced more than...

The French Pyrénées-Orientales department, which borders Spain’s Catalonia autonomous region, will be officially declared to be at drought "crisis" level from 10 May 2023, when bans on car-washing, garden-watering, and pool-filling will also come into effect. This first set of water restrictions is an effort to conserve water resources and...