Europe’s 2026 summer brought 41 days of strong heat stress, 52% under very strong conditions, four top-10 heat waves, and river flows at lows since 1992.
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Swiss glaciers lost 5.5% of their volume in 2026 and nearly 20% in five years, GLAMOS reports, as a record-hot summer pushed melt to the second-biggest on recor
An open-source model reads a year of satellite data to map crops in Senegal, scoring 84% and beating the next-best by 28%, with limits on mixed fields.
Japan’s PANSY Antarctic radar, added to models for seven 2022 atmospheric rivers, lowered forecast errors and changed moisture transport by over 30%.
FarmFlux flies low with 12+ sensors to track methane, ammonia, ozone and particulates over Colorado and Texas now, then the Midwest and California in 2027.
Since 1979, Greenland and Antarctica lost 11.3 trillion tonnes of ice, raising sea level 3.14 cm; 84% came from faster glacier discharge, about a quarter of tod
Since 1979, Greenland and Antarctica lost 11.3 trillion tons of ice, raising seas 31.4 mm; 84% from faster glacier flow. Ice sheets now supply about a quarter o
On Sept 15 UTC, ESA launched FLEX with Sentinel‑3C on Vega‑C to detect faint chlorophyll fluorescence from orbit and assess plant health with tandem observation
ESA’s FLEX and Sentinel‑3C launch on Vega‑C to track faint plant fluorescence and align it with Earth‑system data via near‑simultaneous tandem observations.
Dust in Antarctic snow matches solar system cloud crossings, while 10% N2O under a 70% Sun warms Earth’s equator to about 41°F.