Earth’s oceans help to slow global warming by absorbing carbon from our atmosphere – but fully observing this crucial process in the upper ocean and lower atmosphere is difficult, as measurements are taken not where it occurs, the sea surface, but several metres below. New research uses data from ESA, NASA and NOAA satellites to …
Registration is open as from today for the Horizon 2020 European Green Deal Call, a €1 billion call for research and innovation projects that respond to the climate crisis and help protect Europe’s unique ecosystems and biodiversity. Ten areas will be covered. Eight thematic areas reflecting the key work streams of the European Green Deal: Increasing …
On 19 August 2020, the world’s largest and longest polar research expedition – known as MOSAiC – reached the North Pole after making an unplanned detour owing to lighter-than-usual sea ice conditions. The expedition is now entering its final stage, during which researchers will study the last piece of the Arctic puzzle: the growth of …
A recent report confirms that ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, whose mass-loss rates have been rapidly increasing, are matching the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s worst-case sea-level rise scenarios. Read the full story.
Accumulation of carbon in forests, either by natural growth or by reforestation in non-forested areas has a great potential to support mitigation of climate change. The political framework is set by policy needs as expressed in the Paris Agreement, where parties should take action to conserve and enhance, as appropriate, sinks and reservoirs of greenhouse …
ESA actively promotes uptake of state-of-the-art ICT platform resources for EO exploitation by European research activities, This uptake phase is supported by opportunities to access these resources free-at-point-of-use, implemented via vouchers mechanisms. Today two initiatives are in place, one sponsored by ESA, one sponsored by the European Commission allowing research activities to request vouchers that can …
The IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in Changing Climate (2019) includes “permafrost carbon and greenhouse gas emissions” as one of the cases characterised by deep uncertainty. The report states that even if there is a very high confidence that “permafrost temperatures have increased to record high levels including the recent increase by …
It is no news that the use of social media by the science community has grown over the recent years. Platforms like Twitter offer a quick and efficient tool to engage/enlarge audiences across the globe to showcase research and findings, but not only… @EO_OPEN_SCIENCE (ESA Twitter account dedicated to Open Science and EO users) reaching …
Is the pandemic disrupting the growth and harvest of staple crops and the food supply chain? Read the full story.
The overarching goal of the EO AFRICA RD Facility is to foster an African-European RD collaboration enabling an active research community and creative innovation processes for a continuous development of EO capabilities in Africa. The RD Facility will identify African EO research challenges, launch research calls, leverage modern cloud computing development tools and support a …
