Knowledge Centre on Earth Observation

In April and May, ahead of the boreal summer, Canada and eastern Russia experienced an increase in wildfire activity, with transport of smoke from the Canadian wildfires across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe...

The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) is to hold its 9 th General Assembly on 3-5 September 2025. The event will consist of plenary sessions, cross-cutting...

The 2024 European State of the Climate (ESOTC) report has been published by the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by ECMWF, and the World Meteorological Organization...

The 2nd Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health, convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Cartagena, Colombia, addressed the critical issue of air pollution and its implications...

Biodiversity faces increasing pressure from environmental stressors, with climate change and air pollution contributing to ecosystem degradation. Shifts in temperature, precipitation patterns, and pollutant deposition are...

2024 saw South America in the grips of a wildfire crisis, with some countries and regions experiencing record-breaking emissions and severe air quality impacts, as highlighted in the annual wildfires...

The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) is happy to introduce the new CAMS Methane Hotspot Explorer, a powerful new tool allowing to visualise major methane (CH...

The year 2024 saw contrasting wildfire activity across the globe. North and South America were the most affected continents according to the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service...

A new paper published as part of the ramp-up of the new CAMS greenhouse gas emission monitoring services makes a thorough comparison of observation- and inventory-based methane emissions datasets...

The Copernicus Sentinel Expansion Missions are a major leap forward in Europe’s Earth observation capabilities. With the United Kingdom’s re-entry to the EU’s Copernicus programme, funding has...