Climate Change

Melting snow helps trees to absorb carbon dioxide

Can something bad lead to something good? Maybe it can, according to new research about global warming. Scientists…

Seeing the Earth through different eyes

When you go somewhere new and exciting, do you pack a camera? We often like to take pictures…

ESA satellites track Antarctic ice

Scientists have been using satellites in orbit around Earth to monitor a group of 30 frozen glaciers in…

Greenland’s melting ice revealed by ESA satellite

An ESA satellite called CryoSat has been measuring the amount of ice in Greenland. It has discovered that…

Greenhouse gases on the rise

Satellite observations of planet Earth have shown that the amount of methane and carbon dioxide in our atmosphere…

Thinning ice and rising sea levels

Since its launch in April 2010, ESA’s CryoSat spacecraft has been flying over the North and South Poles…

Europe’s space Sentinels

Based on over 30 years of experience in flying Earth observation satellites, ESA is developing five new types…

The shrinking ozone holes

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Satellites can prevent another Titanic

One hundred years ago, on 15 April 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank while crossing…

Climate change is when there is a big difference in normal climate patterns over a long amount of…

Successful launch of CryoSat-2!

The CryoSat-2 satellite was succesfully launched on 8 April 2010 from Kazakhstan. The satellite will measure ice thickness…

CryoSat – ESA’s eye on Earth’s ice

ESA is about to launch the most advanced satellite ever to measure Earth’s ice cover. The CryoSat mission…

The Threat of Melting Ice

About 20,000 years ago, much of Europe, Asia, North and South America was covered by huge sheets of…

ESA helps make summer in the city more bearable

When it comes to excitement and non-stop activity, cities are the place to be. However, summer in the…

ESA launches GOCE

This afternoon, the GOCE satellite developed by ESA was launched into a near-Sun-synchronous, low Earth orbit by a…

Disappearing Arctic ice

For more than 500 years, navigators have been seeking an ice-free route between the Arctic islands of northern…

Greenhouse gases star in space movies

Everyone agrees that our planet is getting warmer. Most scientists believe that ‘greenhouse gases’ – mainly carbon dioxide…

ESA images on Google Earth

Fewer than 450 people have enjoyed the wonder of staring down at our beautiful planet from space. However,…

Record ozone loss over South Pole

Since 1985, scientists have been monitoring a hole in the ozone layer, high above Antarctica. It had been…

Arctic ice is breaking up!

Permanent ice caps have existed at the North and South Poles for millions of years. But dramatic changes…

Aeolus, ESA’s wind watcher

It is easy to measure wind speed and direction at one place on the ground, but what are…

Cryosat: Europe’s ice explorer

Most scientists agree that our planet is getting warmer. The first 10 years of this century were the…

Europe under snow

Spring gets off to an unseasonal start across Europe: this Envisat image from last week shows the continent…

Hurricanes

Hurricanes are the most awesome storms on Earth. Every summer, these huge, rotating storms form over the warm…

Aerosols

The air is full of tiny, floating dust particles and droplets – known as “aerosols”. Many aerosols are…

Global warming

Every time we breathe out, we send carbon dioxide gas into the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is one example…

Losing the ozone layer

Have you ever suffered from sunburn? This burning of the skin is caused by ultraviolet (UV) light from…