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The Marine Heat Waves from space: from detection to prediction workshop

October 13 @ 09:00 - October 16 @ 17:00 UTC+2

Marine Heat Waves (MHWs) — periods of abnormally high sea surface temperatures lasting several days — are becoming more frequent and intense under climate change. Enhancing our capacity to monitor and predict them is now crucial — not only for science, but also for society and ocean health. Recognizing the growing importance of MHWs, numerous …

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Scientists

Understanding the long-term impact of earthquakes on slopes

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 …

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85 new subglacial lakes detected below Antarctica

Using over a decade of data from ESA’s CryoSat satellite, scientists have identified 85 previously unknown active subglacial lakes beneath Antarctica, bringing the total to 231. These lakes, hidden several kilometres below the surface, periodically fill and drain—movements detected through subtle ice surface height changes measured by CryoSat’s radar altimeter. The discovery also adds 12 …

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2nd Antarctica InSync International Science Webinar

September 9 @ 07:00 - September 10 @ 17:30 UTC+0

To accommodate participants across diverse time zones and ensure broad global engagement, the webinar will take place over two days, with each session offering the same core content. Join us for a dynamic two-day online workshop to advance the scientific planning of Antarctica InSync, an international initiative endorsed by the UN Ocean Decade. Aiming for …

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EO Africa R&D Scientists

10 new EO AFRICA projects will kick off in September 2025

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 …

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EarthCODE Champions FAIR and Open Science at LPS25

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 …

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ESA Science Hub Challenges 2025 kicked-off

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 …

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Antarctic waters getting saltier as sea ice wanes

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 …

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Swarm in tune with atmospheric hot flushes

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 …

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