Europe secures funding for new Copernicus satellites: enhanced monitoring of climate, emissions, and oceans from space.

Thanks to the Sentinel-2 imagery, analysts can delineate burned area boundaries, estimate how much land has been affected and ...

Greenland's mountains greatly affect local climate patterns.

Global temperatures in 2025 were ranked as the third-highest on record, continuing a worrying trend of persistent and ...

Thousands of cities around the world saw their hottest year on record in 2025 as the planet has inched closer to a key ...

Although 2025 did not set a new global temperature record, it still delivered clear signs of a warming planet.

After more than 10 years in orbit, the first Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite, Sentinel-2A, is still finding new ways to ...

Increasing greenhouse gas buildup and exceptionally high ocean temperatures drove the significantly hot conditions, the new ...

Central Asia, the Sahel region and northern Europe experienced their hottest year on record in 2025, according to AFP analysis based on data from the European Copernicus programme. Globally, the last ...

When charted on a graph, 2023, 2024 and 2025 “seemed to jump up,” said NOAA climate monitoring chief Russ Vose. When averaged ...

Donald G. York, an astronomer with the University of Chicago who helped revolutionize the field as a co-founder of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and made pioneering contributions to the study of the ...