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Europe in 2025: extremes from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean

Europe in 2025: Heat extremes, record-breaking fires, melting ice and warm seas.

Satellite imagery captures devastating wildfires across Europe in 2025

The Flexible Combined Imager provides crucial data for observing wildfires.

Decades of satellite data reveal polar sea ice trends

How satellite climate data records help scientists understand shifts in polar sea ice.

Satellite insights into African dust transport

Satellite imagery captures a major dust event affecting Europe.

A new lens on West Africa's invisible killer

How satellite data is being used to maps the flows of air pollution across Ghana and West Africa.

Our unprecedented climate

EUMETSAT contributes to the Copernicus Climate Change Service’s climate change monitoring.

Spotlight on an instrument: Copernicus Sentinel-5

Dominika Leskow-Czyżewska highlights three key applications of Sentinel-5 observations

Warming atmosphere supercharges Indian monsoons

Extreme monsoon rainfall in India increasing with significant cloud changes.

Behind the data: observing California’s toxic algae from space

Satellite observations shed light on a toxic algal bloom in California.

Tracking air quality from space with EUMETSAT and Copernicus

EUMETSAT data contribute to monitoring air quality and atmospheric composition

Advancing ocean colour science: measurement training and comparison in Venice

Venice hosts advanced training on ocean-colour field radiometry protocols for validation.

More than half a billion flashes: Lightning Imager details storms like never before

EUMETSAT’s Remote Sensing Scientist Sven-Erik Enno reflects on the Meteosat Third Generation Lightning Imager impacts, following its first full operational year.