Cyclone Roanu has claimed over 100 lives in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and has left tens of thousands in need of aid. Officials are looking to the sky for information on flooded areas to analyse the cy...
Wildfires have been raging in Canada’s Alberta province for nearly three weeks, causing widespread destruction and forcing thousands of people from their homes. As the blaze grows and shifts, satellit...
3 May 2016ESA and Airbus Defence and Space UK signed a €229 million contract on 29 April to build the next Earth Explorer: the Biomass satellite, due to begin its mission in 2021.The satellite will pr...
Press release available only in original language. 15 Aprile 2016Molteplici satelliti, compresi gli europei Sentinel, hanno ripreso immagini dei due grandi iceberg che si sono staccati, il 7 apri...
Press release available only in original language. 21 March 2016A new facility is offering researchers and industry an opportunity to experiment with microalgae on larger scales than before. Based in ...
3 March 2016With deforestation accounting for 10% of greenhouse gas emissions, satellite observations have an important role to play in mapping this changing ecosystem. ESA is therefore going to great...
2 March 2016Just two weeks after launch, the latest Sentinel satellite has offered a taster of what it will provide for the EU’s Copernicus programme.Sentinel-3A’s very first image, captured at 14:09 ...
Press release available only in original language. 25 February 2016Each year, about a quarter of the carbon dioxide we release into the atmosphere ends up in the ocean, but how it happens is still not...
Press release available only in original language. 24 February 2016The current El Niño weather phenomenon is taking its toll on coral reefs, prompting a field campaign to the middle of the Pacific Oce...
8 February 2016Antarctica is surrounded by huge ice shelves. New research, using ice velocity data from satellites such as ESA’s heritage Envisat, has revealed that there is a critical point where the...
8 February 2016Monitoring Earth’s surface every day, ESA’s #probav minisatellite has had a ringside seat as the second largest lake in #bolivia gradually dried up. Lake Poopó has now been declared ful...
A commercial forest seen through the ‘eyes’ of a 3D laser scanning system developed by the ESA-supported Treemetrics company.The trees of planet Earth – recently estimated to number three trillion in ...
Wetlands are land areas that are permanently or seasonally saturated with water. They play an important role in the local environment and associated plant and animal life.On 2 February 1971, the ‘Rams...
Jason-3 was successfully launched Sunday 17 January from Vandenberg Air Force Base in the United States. The oceanography satellite is now under the control of CNES’s engineers in Toulouse, who will ...
11 December 2015The satellite age has revolutionised our understanding of Earth, giving us accurate information to help critical agreements on climate change such as at the current COP21 conference in...
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