During the first weekend of September 2023, a slow-moving storm system, officially known as an upper-level isolated depression (DANA), has affected Spain, causing heavy rains and floods. The storm,…
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On 18 August, one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites acquired this image of Pantelleria. The island, nestled in the Aegadian Archipelago (Italy), is a stopover for migratory birds. It been…
Relentless wildfires in Canada continue to produce vast amounts of smoke, leading to poor air quality conditions across the northern hemisphere. On 31 August, the smoke cloud reached Italy, Albania,…
On 30 August, Hurricane Idalia reached category 3 before making landfall southeast of Tallahassee in a marshy and thinly populated part of Florida. It weakened and advanced through the Georgia and…
In the 19th century, many Europeans would have experienced an urban environment rife with poor sanitation, high pollution, few green spaces and rampant disease.
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Wildfires continue to plague Canada in, making this the worst wildfire season on record and exacerbating ongoing air quality issues due to dense smoke. The country has been ravaged by fires for the…
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This image shows a plume of Saharan dust reaching Greece and was acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites on 29 August 2023. The large plume stretches hundreds of kilometres from the…
Firefighters continue efforts to mitigate the fire that started near the town of Alexandroupoli and has already spread to the Evros region reaching the vicinity of the towns of Kotronia and Dadia…
In the early morning of 16 August 2023, a new fire started on the island of Tenerife, affecting several of the island's natural parks. Among them the Corona Forestal Natural Park, and the El Teide…
On Sunday 27 August, the fire in the Alexandroupolis area was still raging and the wind were fanning the flames, hampering firefighting efforts. On Sunday 27 August, 295 firefighters, seven aircraft…
The wildfire affecting the Greek port city of Alexandroupoli has become one of the largest fires ever recorded in Europe and has so far claimed the lives of 21 people while 15,000 people have been…
The #IFArafoCandelaria is the most serious fire in Spain this year and the worst in the last 40 years in the Canary Islands. Ten days after it started, the evolution of the fire is starting to be…
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Multiple fires continue to ravage Greece. Among the most significant are those currently raging in the Sterea Ellada region, the East Macedonia and Thrace regions, and on the islands of Euboea and…
The ongoing heatwave, combined with the absence of clouds over the Alps, resulted in record-breaking temperatures across Europe, even at high altitudes. According to MeteoSwiss, the Federal Office…
At the beginning of the third decade of August 2023, Greece faced a substantial outbreak of extensive wildfires, bringing significant concerns to the affected regions. In East Macedonia, the flames…
France is grappling with the consequences of the severe heatwave which is ongoing in central and western Europe. On 20 August, forty-nine air temperature records have been broken. One area…
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