This mosaic, created by combining Copernicus Sentinel-3 images captured on 20 April, showcases intricate and diverse weather systems across Europe and the Atlantic Ocean.  The image reveals high-pressure systems over Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, and Ireland, as well as cyclonic structures over the Atlantic Ocean, Germany, the Netherlands,...

On 20 April, the Copernicus Climate Change Service released the ‘2022 European State of the Climate Report’.  As shown in this data visualisation called “climate stripes”, in 2022, Europe experienced its second-warmest year on record and hottest summer to date.  The report also notes that the spread of large fires across EU countries has...

Today the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem extends its offer of data access APIs and processing tools and will continuously be upgraded in the coming months to provide the key public service capabilities and data offer by July 2023.

The invasion of sargassum in the Caribbean Sea continues to spread in the spring of 2023. Multiple sightings of brown seaweed have been reported, causing concerns for the tourism industry and local ecosystems.  On 13 April, one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites imaged a massive mat of algae measuring over 1 km in width south of Barbados....

Our climate is rapidly evolving in response to increased greenhouses gas concentrations in the atmosphere. Global temperatures have already risen by 1.2°C above the pre-industrial level, with Europe warming faster than the global average.