Satellite image of the forest fires in Siberia. Image: NASA/MODIS The number and intensity of wildfires currently raging north of the Arctic Circle are leading to high carbon emissions – the third highest for the Arctic in the month of June since 2003. From...
When nature takes her paintbrushes, the result is the Belcher Islands. Located on Hudson Bay, they are home to the small community of Sanikiluaq and its thousand inhabitants. Image: Landsat 7 / USGS From the convolutions of frozen rivers to concentrations of...
The 24 million square kilometre ozone hole above Antarctica on 27 September 2020. (Foto: NASA) The hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica is one of the largest and deepest in the last 15 years, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The ozone hole...