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Rafael Cereceda

World News

What on Earth (monitoring) can Copernicus do for me?

The European Union's satellite and earth monitoring program can seem a complex constellation far, far away but its ever-growing services are already among us and have many possible applications.

18 October 2019

Spain

The Spanish government launches campaign curb criticism

The Government of Spain and its main leaders have launched a campaign on social media under the hashtag #Everybodysland, at the same time that Spain's Supreme Court sentence -convicting nine Catalan separatist leaders to between 9 and 13 years in prison- was made public.

14 October 2019

World News

Do lithium-ion batteries really deserve a Nobel Prize?

The invention of the lithium-ion batteries -awarded with the 2019 Chemistry Nobel- has undoubtfully changed our societies, but it is not without a high environmental cost.

10 October 2019

World News

Sizzling September equals warm temperature record

"With continued greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting impact on global temperatures, records will continue to be broken in the future,” warned Copernicus, the EU climate change service.

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World News

Watch: Thirty-five years of Arctic thaw in two minutes

NASA's scientific visualisation study has updated its animation to show not only how Arctic sea ice has less surface; It is also getting thinner.

World News

European space mission aims to fill missing piece of climate jigsaw

The European Space Agency has commissioned a new satellite mission in a bid to find a crucial missing piece of the climate jigsaw.

27 September 2019

World News

Millions of young people march for climate in historic mobilisation

The global climate strike kicked off in the Pacific islands and followed the rising sun through Australia, Japan, Southeast Asia and into Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

20 September 2019

World News

How summer 2019 hurt the Arctic, the frontline of climate change

Unprecedented wildfires, a record melt of the sea ice and some more extreme weather episodes have marked the 2019 summer season in the Arctic Circle. It was on a par or worse than the 2012 record melt and heat levels, showing that the North Pole is the frontline of the global climate crisis.

18 September 2019

Brazil

Amazon fires in August triple compared to same month last year

So far this year nearly 94,000 fires have been observed across Brazil with the majority recorded in the Amazon.

4 September 2019

Brazil

Amazonas state declares state of emergency over rising forest fires

The Brazilian state of Amazonas declared a state of emergency over the rising number of forest fires in the area.

World News

Indigenous peoples can teach us lessons about wildlife and land use

A new study found that indigenous-managed lands had high levels of biodiversity.

Russia

Take a 2,000 km 'space flight' over the Siberian wildfires

European agency Copernicus Emergency Management System has provided Euronews with an animation of the ongoing wildfires in Russia's Sakha Republic.

Greenland

Before and after pictures show Greenland's rapid ice melt from space

The scale of the melt in Greenland during the August heatwave is difficult to comprehend but satellite imagery shows the true extent of the thaw.

Greenland

Five visuals to sum up Greenland's exceptional ice melting & wildfires

The European record heatwave of July is stuck in Greenland, causing an exceptional melt season, very close to the 2012 record. These pictures sum up the scale of the situation.

Greenland

How rapid ice melting in Greenland will affect us all

A heatwave that last week gripped Europe and sent the mercury soaring, causing record temperatures in several countries, has now settled in Greenland and the results are startling.

World News

Worried about Europe's heatwave? Spare a thought for the Arctic Circle

While most of Europe is focussing on this week's record-breaking heatwave, maybe we should have a closer look at what is happening in the Arctic Circle.

World News

'Milky Way merged with dwarf galaxy 10 billion years ago'

A colossal cosmic collision roughly 10 billion years ago saw our galaxy's mass expand by a quarter after merging with a smaller one, say scientists.

World News

From Spain to the rest of Europe: This is how you survive a heatwave

As more Countries around the World have to deal with scorching temperatures, here are some tips from the Spanish way of life, better adapted to this weather.

Earth News

Is the world of finance ready to go green?

Investors are increasingly keen in putting their money into sustainable projects. From the traditional 'greenwashing', they’re shifting to a real interest in "green investment". At the Transition Forum in Monaco, we had the opportunity to hear their views.

Earth News

9 sustainable economy startups aiming to clean up our future

What’s the solution to the climate and pollution crisis? Entrepreneurs from all over the world are currently working on proposals for a sustainable economy. Monaco's Transition Forum gathered some of the most important French sustainable startups.

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