When the ground trembles during a powerful earthquake, the danger doesn’t end once the shaking stops. Hidden threats like landslides and floods often emerge later, putting lives and infrastructure at risk weeks, months, or even years after the main event. The knowledge gap Collapsed buildings and fast-moving landslides make headlines, but earthquakes destabilise …
The POLARIN Network, an international network of polar research infrastructures and their services, has officially launched its Transnational Access (TA) Call for 2025. This presents an excellent opportunity for ESA projects and activities to access polar research infrastructures, enhancing data collection for their initiatives. POLARIN is an EU-funded project that provides researchers with integrated access …
With almost 150 proposals received, the 4th Call for Tandem projects launched by ESA in cooperation with the African Union Commission (AUC) and coordinated by the EO Africa R&D Facility demonstrated the high interest in scientific collaboration between Africa and Europe. The call aimed to leverage Earth observation to tackle present and future challenges in …
A new study published in Nature Geoscience reports the first documented case of a subglacial lake draining explosively through Greenland’s ice sheet, blasting a roughly 2 km² area and cutting a 85 m‑deep crater in July-August 2014. The researchers estimate the event released about 90 billion litres of meltwater bursting upward through nearly 85–90 m of ice. The flood …
At the Living Planet Symposium 2025, EarthCODE played a central role in promoting Open and FAIR Science as part of ESA’s wider commitment to open science principles. The team delivered hands-on workshops, tutorials, and one-on-one sessions aimed at onboarding projects into the Open Science Catalogue and the ESA Project Results Repository (PRR). These sessions helped researchers increase …
On-Hold Temporary Please, note that the Living Planet fellowship call 2025 is on hold temporary. We are adapting the documentation to a new and more adequate collaborative framework. The updated documents and new deadline for submission of proposals will be communicated in September. With this change ESA aims at improving the process and establish a …
During the ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025 in Vienna, Austria, a key milestone in the roadmap towards implementing FAIR Open Science in support of the ESA Science Strategy was marked with the Open Science Partnership Ceremony, held on Thursday, 26 June. The event brought together representatives from ESA, ESA Member States and international partners to …
The European Space Agency’s Earth System Science Hub Challenges 2025 have kicked off with a first workshop organized from 7-11 July 2025 with students from the University of Leicester and Sorbonne University/IPGP during the week of 7–11 July 2025. The Science Hub Challenges, organised twice per year by the European Space Agency, offer a unique opportunity for …
Using data from ESA’s SMOS satellite, scientists collaborating in the Southern Ocean Freshwater (SO Fresh) project have discovered a surprising reversal in the Southern Ocean: instead of becoming fresher as Antarctic sea ice melts, surface waters are growing saltier, particularly south of 50° S, with salinity rising even as ice cover rapidly retreats. This unexpected trend …
Using data from ESA’s Swarm satellites, together with those from the US–German GRACE mission and from ground-based instrument networks, scientists have measured atmospheric density changes resulting from auroral Joule heating during 276 geomagnetic storms between 2010 and 2024. Such dramatic shifts in Earth’s upper atmosphere associated to geomagnetic activity are described as “hot flushes.” These …
