While greenhouse gas emissions have continued to increase, significant progress has been made in estimating global and regional carbon budgets, especially in reducing carbon budget uncertainties and better quantifying emissions from different sources. Advances have also been made in understanding the interaction between cycles of carbon, water, and nitrogen and the effects of climate change …
Measuring nutrient composition in crops is an ever-increasing need in a global context where micronutrient malnutrition is affecting more than 2 billion people, i.e., more than 26% of the world’s population. Conventional, laboratory-based methods are far too costly to be applied on a large scale. A study, conducted in the framework of the EO Science …
The Earth System Science Workshop took place at the ESRIN Science Hub from May 22 to 26, 2023, bringing together a group of 12 PhD students from the University of Edinburgh and University of Leeds led by Professor Kathy Whaler. The workshop aimed to train participants in working with ESA’s Deep Earth System Data Lab …
The European Space Agency, in collaboration with the Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE), has announced an exciting opportunity for the international scientific community. The Announcement of Opportunity (AO) aims to provide access to data from the SAOCOM mission for scientific research and the development of Earth Observation (EO)-based applications. This initiative is part of …
A recently published study has produced the first ever global assessment of glacier mass loss using satellite radar altimetry, in particular ESA’s CryoSat-2 satellite and a breakthrough way of using its data. The results show that between 2010 and 2020, glaciers lost a total of 272 ± 11 gigatonnes of ice, which is equivalent to …
Europe has made significant progress in improving health outcomes, with increased life expectancy and better management of diseases. However, the continent still faces challenges such as an aging population, a higher prevalence of chronic diseases, and the need to strengthen the resilience of healthcare systems in the wake of pandemics, such as the COVID-19 crisis. …
A recent paper published in Earth System Science Data presents a breakthrough in irrigation data sets obtained from satellite observations. The study, conducted as part of the EO Science for Society Irrigation+ project, focuses on three major river basins with varying irrigation extents and methodologies, namely the Ebro river basin in northeastern Spain, the Po …
Ice losses from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have been accelerating since the 1990s, according to the latest study published today by the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE). The study, which presents a 29-year record of ice sheet mass balance from 1992 to 2020, combines 50 independent estimates of ice sheet mass …
The BICEP project is an innovative effort to better understand the biological carbon pump in the oceans using satellite data. By mapping the distribution of phytoplankton and other satellite-based products of different pools and fluxes of biological carbon in the surface ocean, the project seeks to improve our understanding of the role of the ocean …
The Hydrology Group of the Italian National Research Council has developed an innovative approach using satellite observations of terrestrial water storage, soil moisture and precipitation to predict runoff and river discharge – with the results published in the EGU Geoscientific Model Development journal. This outcome of several ESA-funded activities, including Stream, Ridesat and the merged Streamride projects, …
