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As climate change increases the risk of wildfires across the globe, the spate of fires that hit Canada in May and June suggest that 2023 is on course to be the country’s worst fire season to date. These fires not only pose a serious threat to human life, wildlife, the environment and property, they also affect air quality.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Cape Canaveral, USA, in a region known as the Space Coast.

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Mount Triglav, Slovenia

Flooding in Namibia

Lake Powell and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

Global carbon monoxide measured by Sentinel-5P

Mato Grosso, Brazil

Halloween Crack for Halloween

Scandinavian snows

Sea-level variations from Sentinel-3A

First sea-level height results from Copernicus Sentinel-6

B47 breaks off Getz Ice Shelf

Sentinel-3A sees the effects of spring

Czech Agriculture from Space

Land surface temperature

Fjords and ice streams along southern Greenland

Methane levels increase

Orange County

Giving up forests

Delivered by laser

Envisat image of a phytoplankton bloom in the Baltic Sea

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Oslo, Norway’s capital and largest city, and host of the 2023 Global Space Conference on Climate Change, taking place on 23–25 May.

The Hayli Gubbi volcano in northeast Ethiopia, dormant for up to 12 000 years, erupted on 23 November 2025, sending a large plume of ash and sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere. Copernicus Sentinel-5P captured the spread of the sulphur dioxide.

Mount Longonot in Kenya rose by 9 cm from 2004 to 2006

Sentinel-1A scan

Volcanic island on the rise

Sentinel-5P

Red Sea from Sentinel-3B

MSG-2 first colour image

Persian coast

Fires around the world

Baja California, Mexico

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over El Oued, in northeast Algeria, about 80 km west of the border with Tunisia.

Black Sea

Northern Sweden

Pine Island Glacier on Sentinel-1A’s radar

South Korea’s capital city, Seoul, and surroundings are featured in this image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on 21 February 2023.

Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers

Madagascar jellyfish

Jakobshavn glacier calving

The powerful Hurricane Otis has been captured in this Copernicus Sentinel-3 image when it was approaching Mexico’s southern Pacific coast in October 2023.

Phytoplankton bloom off the coast of Scotland

UK heatwave

Atlantic bed imprinted in gravity

Global ocean acidification increase

Lake Alakol in eastern Kazakhstan is featured in this radar image captured by Copernicus Sentinel-1.

Western Pakistan

Kourou, French Guiana

The Great Barrier Reef, Australia

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