Vegetation types, extreme events and the carbon cycle
How is Gross Primary Production (GPP) affected by extreme climate events? Find it out in this video, and read more in the story and paper.
How is Gross Primary Production (GPP) affected by extreme climate events? Find it out in this video, and read more in the story and paper.
Amongst all medal winners and a number of exciting athletes personal stories at the Beijing winter Olympics, now coming to an end, a prominent actor has raised to the podium: snow. Being it for the environmental impact of the almost entirely human-made snow of the ski and snowboarding courses or for the athletes struggling in …
Research carried out within the 3D Earth project, where an international group of geoscientists joined forces to develop a state-of-the art global model of the lithosphere, gives us a better understanding of the natural processes that are occurring deep below our feet. This might bring the possibility of predicting eruptions – such as the astonishing …
A special collection of papers examining the physical, biogeochemical and ecosystem changes related to permafrost thaw and the associated impacts has been recently featured on the Nature Reviews Earth & Environment journal. One of the papers in the collection, describing how scientists from Europe and the US are working together to better track permafrost carbon …
Over the last decades, greenhouse gases and aerosol concentrations have been increasing in the atmosphere, disrupting the balance in the Earth system between incoming and outgoing radiation fluxes. Part of the outgoing longwave radiation being blocked, the system has reemitted less energy towards space than it has received from the Sun. This imbalance at the …
An internal research fellow opportunity is currently open for applicants who have recently completed, or are close to completing a PhD in physics, engineering or Earth system science with research experience and publication records. The applicant may select his/her preferred theme between: Ocean science Activities will focus on exploiting the latest advances in EO satellite …
The HYDROSPACE-GEOGLOWS 2021 workshop, organised by ESA in collaboration with CNES and the GEO Global Water Sustainability Initiative (GEOGloWS), took place in June 2021. It offered the opportunity to have a community discussion focused on future challenges of Inland Water monitoring and prediction, and future observational requirements. An overview of the state-of-the-art presented in the …
The 2021 SWARM+SCIENCE workshop, successfully held on 28–29 June, brought together ESA experts and the Swarm community to discuss the most relevant results of recent ESA projects in the context of magnetosphere – ionosphere – lower atmosphere interactions and to identify the main open questions to be addressed in coming years. The Agency is pleased to …
At ongoing COP26 in Glasgow, a number of highlights are related to the energy sector. More than 40 world leaders, representing more than 70% of the world’s economy and every region, have signed up to a new international plan – the Breakthrough Agenda – that aims to make clean technologies the most affordable, accessible and …
The role of finance in climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies is undisputed. On the one hand, most vulnerable countries are fighting for developed nations commitments on climate financing for adaptation and discussing liability and compensation for “loss and damage” caused by massive floods, devastating wildfires, and rising seas; on the other hand, in Europe, …