Arctic Weather Satellite (AWS). If everything goes as expected, ESA will launch a group of six such satellites. (Photo: ESA) The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that it will launch a satellite in June 2024 to provide improved weather data in the Arctic....
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 ozone hole on September 16, 2023. (Photo: NASA Ozone Watch) Recent measurements of the ozone hole over Antarctica shwos a record breaking size according to a report by the European Space Agency (ESA). The ozone hole was recorded by the Copernicus Sentinel-5P...
A heatwave in the Arctic in the summer of 2019 resulted in a record 444 billion tons of ice being lost from Greenland (Photo: ESA) Ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica has increased five-fold since the 1990s, and now accounts for a quarter of sea-level rise,...
After four months of darkness, the sun announces itself days before the first rise with spectacular colors on the horizon. (Photo: Hannes Hagson) The 12-member crew of the French-Italian research station Concordia woke up in early August to a most welcome sight:...