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Taking the pulse of our planet from space

The scientific evidence of global climate change is irrefutable. The consequences of a warming climate are far-reaching – affecting fresh water resources, global food production, sea level and triggering an increase in extreme-weather events. In order to tackle climate change, scientists and decision-makers need reliable data to understand how our planet is changing.

For more than three decades, Earth-observing satellites have been providing the facts needed to address the challenges of our changing world. 

 

 
Space for our climate
Summer meltwater ponds on sea ice in the Arctic Ocean
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Taking the dazzle out of CryoSat yields a first

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Great Salt Lake in July 2022
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Utah’s Great Salt Lake is disappearing

01/08/2022 33715 views 133 likes
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TRUTHS: a standards laboratory in space
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TRUTHS shines

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France and Spain land-surface temperature
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Feeling the heat from space

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Methane growth anomaly
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Methane levels surged in 2020 despite lockdowns

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Living Planet Symposium opening address
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Living Planet concludes with record numbers

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Cold atom interferometry experiment
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Taking climate monitoring into the future with quantum

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Effects of a warming climate
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Satellites and climate tipping points

26/05/2022 2093 views 69 likes
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Greenland ice sheet melt
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Historic Greenland ice sheet rainfall unravelled

25/05/2022 7108 views 113 likes
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Supporting the Paris Agreement from space

25/05/2022 2407 views 54 likes
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Danube Delta
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Revealing coastline dynamics of the Danube Delta

24/05/2022 8809 views 72 likes
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Africa from Sentinel-2
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Africa in the spotlight at Living Planet Symposium

24/05/2022 1085 views 39 likes
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CO2M mission
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Full steam ahead for carbon dioxide monitoring mission

23/05/2022 4433 views 47 likes
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Watch live: Living Planet Symposium 2022
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Watch live: Living Planet Symposium 2022

20/05/2022 8189 views 50 likes
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Oil palm plantations distribution
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Tracking agricultural-related deforestation

05/05/2022 6946 views 77 likes
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RECAPP-2: analysing carbon budgets
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Satellites improve national reporting of greenhouse gases

14/04/2022 5771 views 68 likes
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All five of North America’s Great Lakes are pictured in this spectacular image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission.
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ESA releases data to reveal how climate change impacts lakes

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Living Planet Symposium 2022
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Register for ESA’s Living Planet Symposium in Bonn

11/03/2022 16413 views 73 likes
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Flooded villages
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Satellites support latest IPCC climate report

02/03/2022 3917 views 91 likes
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Lake Victoria
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Severe heatwaves putting lakes in hot water

24/02/2022 3815 views 83 likes
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Gorner Glacier melt adds to sea level rise
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New research sums up sea-level rise

10/02/2022 6487 views 68 likes
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ESA ECSAT
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ESA hosts new office to coordinate global climate modelling…

09/02/2022 5080 views 81 likes
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Get to grips with analysing climate data

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A lake that has partially drained on the Yamal Peninsula
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Permafrost thaw: it’s complicated

27/01/2022 10795 views 117 likes
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Biomass’ 12-metre wire-mesh reflector
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ESA’s Biomass on track to target forests

15/11/2021 5001 views 64 likes
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ESA’s interactive climate change kit
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ESA uses space to supercharge climate action

15/11/2021 2116 views 44 likes
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Satellites pinpoint communities at risk of permafrost thaw

09/11/2021 4957 views 99 likes
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Explore ESA’s interactive Climate Change Kit

04/11/2021 13863 views 122 likes
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Setting the gold standard for climate measurements
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TRUTHS shapes up

03/11/2021 4683 views 48 likes
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Greenland meltwater runoff
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Meltwater runoff from Greenland becoming more erratic

03/11/2021 5945 views 66 likes
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Antarctica
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Antarctic glacier named Glasgow to mark COP26

31/10/2021 4182 views 82 likes
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Living Planet Symposium 2022
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Living Planet Symposium 2022: time for abstracts

21/10/2021 3872 views 37 likes
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Lake Ontario temperature
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Humans to blame for warming lakes

19/10/2021 4012 views 86 likes
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Luca Brocca presenting the Hydrology Digital Twin at Φ-week
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Working towards a Digital Twin of Earth

14/10/2021 23911 views 96 likes
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Gorner Glacier, Switzerland
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Space for climate: raising awareness ahead of COP26

01/10/2021 8687 views 46 likes
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Smoke and flames in Australia
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Aerosols released from Australian bushfires triggers algal …

30/09/2021 5741 views 72 likes
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Ice sheet in Antarctica
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Satellite data provide valuable support for IPCC climate re…

31/08/2021 6554 views 79 likes
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ESA astronaut joins glacier expedition in Alps

23/08/2021 4687 views 75 likes
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Forest and cloud
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Satellites reveal how forests increase cloud and cool clima…

05/08/2021 12738 views 168 likes
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Above ground biomass in Russia
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Russia’s forests store more carbon than previously thought

04/08/2021 11388 views 96 likes
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A precious resource
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Accounting for Earth’s water cycle

02/08/2021 29298 views 82 likes
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ESA and NASA join forces to understand climate change

13/07/2021 8471 views 101 likes
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Baltic Sea from Copernicus Sentinel-3
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New satellite data techniques reveal coastal sea-level rise

07/07/2021 15511 views 112 likes
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Above ground biomass in the Amazon basin
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Forest degradation primary driver of carbon loss in the Bra…

10/06/2021 6488 views 98 likes
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Victims of diminishing Arctic sea ice
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Arctic coastal sea ice thinning twice as fast than thought

10/06/2021 4517 views 109 likes
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Gulf of Alaska
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CryoSat reveals ice loss from glaciers in Alaska and Asia

01/06/2021 4965 views 72 likes
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Climate from Space
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How ESA boosts climate education

27/05/2021 2135 views 51 likes
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CryoSat key to measuring sea-ice thickness
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Arctic sea ice succumbs to Atlantification

21/05/2021 9480 views 133 likes
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Peloponnese coastline changes
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Monitoring coastal changes in Greece

18/05/2021 8953 views 118 likes
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Glacier avalanches in the Sedongpu region, China
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Glacier avalanches more common than thought

30/04/2021 5619 views 123 likes
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