On 19 February 2023, disastrous floods hit the state of São Paulo in Brazil, causing widespread damage and claiming the lives of 57 people. The heavy rains triggered landslides and flooding in coastal towns of the country’s richest state, causing extensive damage to housing and infrastructure. More than 4,000 people were forced to evacuate...

This image, acquired on 26 February 2023 by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites, shows dust engulfing the skies over Southern Italy, Malta, and part of Greece. Over the past two weeks, multiple Saharan dust storm episodes have deteriorated air quality in Southern Europe. These dust storms are harmful to human health, causing many...

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Severe weather conditions recently hit Morocco, causing snow cover to reach up to 1.7 metres in some areas of the Ouarzazate province. The heavy snowfall significantly affected the local population, and 9,000 families will benefit from emergency humanitarian aid, consisting mainly of food and blankets. This extreme weather has also had a...

Copernicus is the world's largest provider of Earth Observation data, and its launch has been a defining moment, not only for the remote sensing community but for all scientists, entrepreneurs, and citizens in the EU and beyond.