On 22 July 2025, a wildfire erupted in Greece's Northern Peloponnese region, devastating a significant portion of the landscape. Over 340 firefighters, supported by aerial and ground units, worked to combat the flames.  On the same day of the fire’s outbreak, the Greek Disaster Planning and Management Directorate - General secretariat for Civil...

The Metelių Regional Park, located in southern Lithuania, is a protected Natura 2000 site renowned for its great lakes: Dusia, Metelys, and Obelija. They support rich aquatic biodiversity and are important stopover sites for migratory birds, including cranes and grebes. Reedbeds and wet meadows surrounding the lakes serve as breeding grounds...

The first half of 2025 was marked by intense wildfire activity in several areas around the world. From the boreal forests of Canada and Russia to the agricultural heartlands of Southeast Asia, and from temperate zones of Europe to the Korean Peninsula, wildfires and the resulting long-distance transport of smoke had significant impacts on air...

Each summer, parts of the Baltic Sea display vivid green algal blooms, triggered by sunlight, high temperatures, and abundant nutrients. This image, acquired by a Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite on 21 July 2025, shows widespread algal blooms off the coast of Sweden. The first signs of this event appeared in early July and have steadily...

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, acquired on 17 March 2025, shows the flow of the David Glacier as it feeds into the Drygalski Ice Tongue in East Antarctica. Stretching  90 km into the Ross Sea, the ice tongue is one of the largest floating ice extensions in Antarctica. The linear structure of the ice tongue reveals its dynamic forward...