The Appalachian Mountains are a mountain range in the eastern part of North America, extending from Canada through the eastern United States to Alabama. Every year, with the onset of autumn, they turn into a colourful canvas. This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 25 October, shows the mountains of West Virginia...

Tropical Cyclone Lola made landfall in Vanuatu, in the South Pacific, between 24 and 25 October, bringing heavy rainfall, strong winds and storm surges across the archipelago. Lola interrupted communications and caused widespread damage to homes and crops in the northern and central provinces of the country. This Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar...

The Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) has released an invitation to tender.

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In August 2023, California was hit by the Hilary tropical storm. It brought torrential rain to Death Valley National Park, which received a year's worth of rainfall in a single day. The rains transformed the region, replenishing basins that had been dry for nearly two decades. The Badwater Basin is one of these, shown in these two Copernicus...

In an era in which understanding our planet and its dynamics is more critical than ever, the Geo-information Science and Earth Observation for Environmental Modelling and Management (GEM) Joint Master programme is nurturing the next generation of Earth Observation practitioners.

The drought that is affecting Bolivia has fuelled wildfires in the provinces of Cochabamba, La Paz and Santa Cruz. As a result, air quality in some areas has been altered by the smoke. Water shortages have also become a major issue, leading authorities to declare a state of emergency in 165 communities.In this image of the Bolivian provinces of...

 Tej is a severe cyclonic storm ongoing in the Arabian Sea. It is expected to make landfall on 24 October between the cities of Al Ghaidah in Yemen and Salalah in Oman, causing heavy rain and flooding in both countries. This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites on 22 October at 06:19 UTC, shows Tej approaching Oman and...

A massive Saharan dust storm developed in the Mediterranean on the evening of 20 October. As shown in this image acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites on 21 October at 8:50 UTC, the dust cloud stretched from Libya to Italy, engulfing the skies over the Strait of Sicily. According to the forecasts of the Copernicus Atmosphere...

Pyramid Lake is the largest natural lake entirely within the state of Nevada in the USA  and covers an area of about 500 km2.   Every year around this time, Pyramid Lake is affected by a natural algal bloom, which algae is a result of the abundance of nutrients in the lake, which leads to a multiplication of algae.  In this image, acquired by...

This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 10 October 2023, shows the Moulière forest near Poitiers in France.  This 4,200-hectare forest has become a living mosaic of trees, creating an experiment in climate change adaptation. In this open-air laboratory, scientists are trying to study how forests can absorb the...

Survey on requirements and wishes for future soil products provided by the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS).

The volcanic island born from the Home Reef eruption continues to grow  The Home Reef is an underwater volcano in the Tonga Archipelago. It erupted in September 2022, forming a volcanic island about 70 metres wide. Home Reef showed no signs of activity until September 2023, when a new eruptive phase started. These images, acquired by one of the...

Over the last twenty years, Europe has been hit with a series of record-breaking heatwaves and droughts. The summers of 2003 and 2010 were especially bad, with 2010 breaking a five-hundred-year European temperature record. Then, just eight years later in 2018, this record was broken again.

Cop.RIVER aims to engage local, national and EU authorities in charge of riverscape management and monitoring to identify reporting needs.

In the Australia’s state of Queensland, on 16 October, firefighters have responded to almost 60 grass and bushfires within a 24-hour timeframe on. The largest ongoing fire, which started in late September, has already burned more than 100,000 hectares in the Carnarvon National Park. Australia is facing a destructive bushfire season due to high...

Minutes of the project kick-off meeting.

Summary of selected remotely sensed indicators for monitoring riverscapes.

Selection of potential pilot basins to test an innovative toolkit to monitor riverscape elements.

Storm Babet is the second storm of the season, named by the Meteorological Service of the United Kingdom (Met Office). It is currently active and moving across the Atlantic Ocean toward the British Isles. Met Office has issued an early warning because of the strong winds and heavy rains which the storm is expected to bring. This image, acquired...