Stories v2

The Great Green Wall against desertification built by Africa, example in Senegal

14/05/2022

Discover in detail "the story" Sentinel Vision

Stories v2

Stateless for 90 years, Pemba people recognized as Kenyans

09/05/2023

Illegal Chinese gold mines in Kibali river basin, DRC

06/05/2023

Total sun eclipse in the Indian Ocean, 20 April 2023

05/05/2023

Lions come back to Sena Oura national park after 20 years of absence, Chad

04/05/2023

Cyclone Ilsa broke the wind-speed record for Australia

02/05/2023

Major contributors to the air pollution by nitrogen dioxide on the African continent

29/04/2023

A fire in April turns Cerbere protected area into a hellish landscape across the drought-struck eastern France-Spain border

28/04/2023

A step toward appeasement after 8 years of war, Yemen

27/04/2023

Shiveluch volcanic eruption, Kamchatka, Russia

25/04/2023

"Commodo and Incommodo" investigation of a mining project, Ivory Coast

22/04/2023

Dust plume off Western Sahara

21/04/2023

Launch of the CopPhil on 24-25th April 2023

20/04/2023

Flooding of Daugava River near Daugavpils, second biggest city of Latvia

18/04/2023

Relationships between Mangrove Marine Park and surrounding populations, Democratic Republic of Congo

15/04/2023

Multiple tornadoes spread havoc through the southern Mississippi Valley, USA

14/04/2023

Air pollution soars off the charts as a massive sandstorm sweeps through China from west to east

13/04/2023

As storage ponds deplete, Spain turns toward mass desalinisation plants

11/04/2023

Willow project greenlighted, a National Reserve in Alaska will be drilled for oil, USA

08/04/2023

Varied eroded landforms around Monterrey, north-east of Mexico

07/04/2023

A National Park protects Vjosa, Europe’s last wild river, Albania

06/04/2023

The Indian desert is home to the Bhadla solar park, the largest solar park in the world

04/04/2023

Nested in Gregory Rift, Lake Turkana is the World’s largest desert lake & witness of early Mankind, Kenya

01/04/2023

Large iron mine project validated at Simandou, Guinea

31/03/2023

426 km from the Pyrenees to the Alps, World record for the most distant photographed landscape on Earth

30/03/2023

A housefire propagates and destroys 75% of the city of Donki Dereisa, South Darfur, Sudan

28/03/2023

Cyclone Freddy alternates deadly landfalls and strengthening episodes in the Mozambique Channel

25/03/2023

A three-years drought and above average temperatures hit Djibouti

24/03/2023

Hundreds evacuate floods in Australian Northern Territory

23/03/2023

630mm of rain triggers floods in Johor Province, at south of the Malaysian Peninsula

21/03/2023

Aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle on New Zealand’s North Island

18/03/2023

Grassy Cove, a city built in a sinkhole, Tennessee, USA

17/03/2023

Nagorno-Karabakh under blockade since December despite the armistice between Azerbaijan and Armenia

16/03/2023

600mm of rainfall in just 12 hours triggers dozens of landslides near Sao Paulo, Brazil

14/03/2023

The new Brazilian government supports the Yanomami people victim of 20 000 illegal gold miners

11/03/2023

Sentinel-1 shows derailed cars after a fatal train collision, Greece

10/03/2023

Large landslide buries 53 workers in Alxa League open-pit coal mine, Inner Mongolia, China

09/03/2023

River Magpie has become a legal entity for its protection to be better ensured, Canada

07/03/2023

Early drought in the Eastern Pyrenees, Spain and France

04/03/2023

Solovetsky Islands, from a UNESCO World Heritage monastery to the "mother of the Gulag", Russia

03/03/2023

Sentinel-3 satellites follow Cyclone Freddy from Oceania to Africa

02/03/2023

Colourful geology of Tensift Valley, Morocco

28/02/2023

Hundreds of wildfires scorch 2700 km² amid a millennial drought and record heatwave in Chile

25/02/2023

Flower bloom for Valentine’s Day in Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve, USA

24/02/2023

Methane bomb in the thawing permafrost of boiling Esieh Lake, Alaska, USA

23/02/2023

Floods in the Orontes River basin in post-earthquake Syria

21/02/2023

Twin earthquake causes massive loss of life in eastern Anatolia, Turkiye, Syria

18/02/2023

The electric fish barrier that protects the Illinois-Michigan Canal from invasive carps, USA

17/02/2023

A 77 hectares landslide makes 700 people homeless, Colombia

16/02/2023

Cyclone Cheneso hits north-west Madagascar

14/02/2023

National Park of Upper Niger, Guinea

11/02/2023

Bukidnon Province, land of pineapple plantations, Philippines

10/02/2023

Slovakia to phase out coal by the end of 2023

09/02/2023

Vistula Spit Canal, new Polish connection to the Baltic Sea

07/02/2023

Sentinels combined to show the 1550 km² iceberg calving from Brunt ice shelf, Antarctica

04/02/2023

New emperor penguin colony found in West Antarctica

03/02/2023

After Mauna Loa, Kilauea volcano awakes, Hawaii, USA

02/02/2023

An atmospheric river floods California, United States

31/01/2023

Garzweiler open pit, the German lignite mine that devours cities

28/01/2023

Lava flows progress after Etna waked up, Sicily, Italy

27/01/2023

Spaceport Esrange, EU’s first mainland orbital launch site inaugurated in Sweden

26/01/2023

Multiple floods affect west and north of Australia

24/01/2023

Changing colours & biodiversity of the Lena river delta, Russia

21/01/2023

The Supreme Court, Congress, and Presidential Palace stormed by 4000 rioters in Brasilia, Brazil

20/01/2023

Denmark lost its snow gown for Christmas

19/01/2023

The level rise of Lake Rose (Retba) endangers local economy, Senegal

17/01/2023

Souapiti Hydropower Station, Republic of Guinea

14/01/2023

Maya temples in Mexico

13/01/2023

Salar de Uyuni, World’s largest salt desert, Bolivia

12/01/2023

Petroleum activity threatens Amazon Napo-Tiger reserve for isolated indigenous peoples

10/01/2023

The Line, a huge construction site seen by Sentinel-2

07/01/2023

CBD COP15 in Montreal

06/01/2023

Cyclonic bomb reaches the United States of America

05/01/2023

FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

03/01/2023

Landslide along RN1 in Kinshasa DRC

31/12/2022

Snowy England

30/12/2022

Portugal and Spain flooding

29/12/2022

Launch of the SWOT satellite, Vandenberg base, United States

27/12/2022

Klyuchevskoy Nature park, volcanic belt of the Central Kamchatka Depression, Russia

24/12/2022

Maragua Depression, a time machine to the Cretaceous in Bolivia

23/12/2022

Heavy rain in multiple coastal states of south-east Brazil

22/12/2022

The 2022 United Nations biodiversity conference (COP15) takes place in Montreal, Canada

20/12/2022

Worrying evolution of Thwaites ’Doomsday’ Glacier, West Antarctica

17/12/2022

Towers under construction demolished due to China’s real estate crisis

16/12/2022

Pentagon, World’s largest office building, United States

15/12/2022

Mauna Loa erupts for the first time since 1984, Hawaii

13/12/2022

Hundreds of square kilometres flooded since August in Pakistan

10/12/2022

Sangay volcano spews gas and pyroclastic flows, Ecuador

09/12/2022

3 years worth of rainfall in 6 hours cause flash floods in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

08/12/2022

200 000 workers locked within Zhengzhou iPhone factories, China

06/12/2022

Archaeological sites of the Kopet Dag region, Turkmenistan

03/12/2022

Heavy rainfall in north-east Scottish Lowlands, UK

02/12/2022

Prevention avoids the worst during a large landslide in Colombia

01/12/2022

The Icon of the Seas, largest cruise ship in the world, built in Meyer Turku shipyard, Finland

29/11/2022

Sentinels -1 & -2 show the devastation wreaked by a tornado outbreak between Texas and Oklahoma, USA

26/11/2022

Kavachi volcano submarine activity, Solomon Islands

25/11/2022

California projects to use storm water to recharge aquifers, USA

24/11/2022

A stagnant haze pollutes the Ganges and Indus valleys, India & Pakistan

22/11/2022

Leaves pigments highlighted by the colours of autumn in north-east United States

19/11/2022

Flood flows downstream from Ethiopia to South Sudan

18/11/2022

A tailing dam fails at Williamson diamond mine, Tanzania

17/11/2022

Iranian cities have some of the World’s worst air quality

15/11/2022

Overexploitation of water resources is rapidly depleting lakes in desertifying Iran

12/11/2022

Sharm El Sheikh hosts COP27 to act for a World at the tipping point, 6-18 Nov. 2022, Egypt

11/11/2022

A tropical storm causes a flood and multiple landslides, southern Maguindanao province, Philippines

10/11/2022

Large infrastructure investments in roads and airports around Istanbul, Turkey

08/11/2022

Shifting level of Lake Cerknica, intermittent karst lake and largest lake of Slovenia

05/11/2022

Colours of Thal desert between the floodplains of the Indus, Chenab & Jhelum rivers, Pakistan

04/11/2022

Discords regarding potential lithium sources in Europe

03/11/2022

Sentinel-3 monitors flooding in Victoria state, Australia

01/11/2022

Earth, air, water and fire interact around Nishinoshima volcano in the Japanese Pacific

29/10/2022

Syrian civil war devastation on eastern Ghouta, Damascus suburb

28/10/2022

Extensive flooding affects the lower Mekong and Tonle Sap region in Cambodia and Vietnam

27/10/2022

One million people affected by flood in Chad

25/10/2022

Two-stage avalanche at Lamplugh Glacier, Alaska, USA

22/10/2022

Volga River coloured in bright green, Russia

21/10/2022

Lasting flood in Nhialdiu, Sudd wetland, South Sudan

20/10/2022

Avalanche on the Ecstall River in British Columbia, Canada

18/10/2022

Amazon deforestation worsens since 2018 after a decade of decrease, Brazil

15/10/2022

First French offshore wind farm opens in St Nazaire

14/10/2022

Niger river flood between Niger, Niger & Nigeria

13/10/2022

Trip to the Azores Archipelago, Portuguese islands on the Atlantic ridge

11/10/2022

The rebirth of the volcanic island Home Reef, Tonga

08/10/2022

Worst Amazon forest fires in a decade, Brazil, Bolivia

07/10/2022

International Astronautical Congress 2022 held in Paris, France

04/10/2022

Sentinel-1 & -2 show the weakening of all 3 Nordstream gas leaks near Bornholm island, Baltic Sea

03/10/2022

How LNG terminals helped Iberic Peninsula to diversify gas sources before the crisis

01/10/2022

Multiple cyclones in the Northern Pacific

30/09/2022

International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer

29/09/2022

Potosi, Bolivia, source of silver of the Spanish Empire

27/09/2022

The birth of topology and graph theory: Euler’s 7 Bridges of Königsberg/Kaliningrad, Russia

23/09/2022

Deadly dam collapse in a diamond mine, RSA

23/09/2022

Large thermal anomaly in western Canada and all of Greenland and Iceland

22/09/2022

The record flood in Pakistan propagates downstream

20/09/2022

Heatwave and drought in the Yangtze River basin, China

17/09/2022

Super typhoon Hinnamnor hits east of Asia

16/09/2022

Narrow Cook Strait, between both large islands of New Zealand

15/09/2022

Artemis-1 flight for the Moon delayed, Florida, USA

13/09/2022

Dry river beds during the worst drought in Europe for 500 years

10/09/2022

Mubarak Al-Kabeer salt marsh, Kuwait

09/09/2022

Partial opening of the New Coastal Road, La Réunion, France

08/09/2022

Exceptional monsoon flood kills over 1100 in Pakistan

06/09/2022

A record drought reveals sunk areas beneath West-European reservoir lakes

03/09/2022

Ofoten Line, northernmost passenger train in the World

02/09/2022

A 200km/h wind blows from Corsica to Czech Republic

01/09/2022

Piraeus port, largest port of Greece for 2500 years

30/08/2022

Reservoir lakes on the Colorado river at historic lows, USA

27/08/2022

Explosion and fire at Matanzas oil storage facility, Cuba

26/08/2022

Drought in North-West Europe

25/08/2022

The eruption of Krysuvik-Trolladyngja resumes, Iceland

23/08/2022

Flash flood in the Death Valley, Mojave Desert, USA

20/08/2022

Tension on Zaporizhzhia, most powerful nuclear power plant in Europe, Ukraine

19/08/2022

Mount Sidley and the Executive Committee Range, volcanic hotpot within the Antarctica

18/08/2022

Spotlight on Taiwan

16/08/2022

McKinney Fire creates a giant aerosol plume, USA

13/08/2022

Lasting heatwave in the Mediterranean Sea

12/08/2022

Ounianga Lakes, remnants of a large Saharan paleo-lake, Chad

11/08/2022

Tromso, northernmost large city of the World, Norway

09/08/2022

The highs and lows of Lake Urmia, Iran

06/08/2022

Oak Fire, first Californian megafire of the 2022 season, USA

05/08/2022

AvtoVAZ factory, World’s largest building, Russia

04/08/2022

Over hundred wildfires in the Iberic peninsula

02/08/2022

African Protected Areas highlighted for the APAC congress

30/07/2022

Mudflows on a recent burn scar in Arizona, US

29/07/2022

Megafire in the Landes de Gascogne forest, SW France

28/07/2022

Last French coal power plant may reopen briefly to avoid a shortage of energy

26/07/2022

Serengeti National Park, hub of annual migrations of herbivores

23/07/2022

The Sri Lanka crisis leads to a revolution

22/07/2022

Kaliningrad Oblast, Russian semi-exclave in Europe

21/07/2022

Heat and drought cause multiple wildfires in Greece

19/07/2022

Drowned valleys of Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand

16/07/2022

85 000 evacuated before massive flood in Sidney, Australia

15/07/2022

A drought threatens the Italian breadbasket

14/07/2022

Kigali, Rwanda, hosts the Inaugural IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress

12/07/2022

The Nord Stream gas project between Russia and Germany

09/07/2022

Illegal sand mining for Makassar land reclamation, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

08/07/2022

Mid-June heatwaves in Europe and southern United States

07/07/2022

Tobacco crops in Malawi

05/07/2022

Strawberries vs Doñana flamingo, Spain

02/07/2022

Meteor Crater, Arizona, USA

01/07/2022

Flower market in Aalsmeer, Netherlands

30/06/2022

Transhumance in the Salamat Region, Chad

28/06/2022

Artificial islands in the South China Sea

25/06/2022

Deadly fire spreads in a container depot, Bangladesh

24/06/2022

Landslide in the gold mine of Belita, Cameroon

23/06/2022

A flash flood affects a large part of western Cuba

21/06/2022

World Oceans Day: the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

18/06/2022

A new lock bridge inaugurated in Vietnam to prevent salt water intrusion

17/06/2022

6th Satellite Soil Moisture and Application Workshop held at Perugia, Italy

16/06/2022

Pitch asphalt lake, La Brea, Trinidad and Tobago

14/06/2022

Timely evacuation before hundreds of landslides during heavy rainfall in 2019, China

11/06/2022

Paks nuclear plant, main node of the Hungarian energy

10/06/2022

Cleveland volcano awakens, Alaska, USA

09/06/2022

TROPOMI monitors the slow recovery of the ozone layer, Antarctica

07/06/2022

Increasing urbanisation and flood risk in Mumbai, India

04/06/2022

Geologic lacework in a pre-Atlas valley, Morocco

03/06/2022

Thousands of Iraqis hospitalized by repeated Shamal-powered dust storms

02/06/2022

Bonn hosts ESA’s 2022 Living Planet Symposium, Germany

31/05/2022

Fast glacial surge and glacial lake outburst flood of Shishper, Karakoram, Pakistan

28/05/2022

The blockade of Ukrainian ports threatens tens of millions of famine worldwide

27/05/2022

Mangroves of Akanda & Pongara National Parks, Gabon

26/05/2022

Shanghai under lockdown since 01 April 2022, China

24/05/2022

Ojos del Salado, highest volcano and highest lakes in the World, Chile & Argentina

21/05/2022

Sentinel-2 shows flooding in Santa Catarina state, Brazil

20/05/2022

Abidjan hosts UNCCD 15th session of the Conference of the Parties, Ivory Coast

19/05/2022

Park and gardens of the Sun King, Versailles, France

17/05/2022

The Great Green Wall against desertification built by Africa, example in Senegal

14/05/2022

Heavy rainfall on Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe island, France

13/05/2022

Pivot irrigation crops in Orange river Valley, South Africa

12/05/2022

An early heatwave afflicts north-west India and eastern Pakistan

10/05/2022

Biodiversity in the Great Lakes Depression, Mongolia

07/05/2022

Sahara sand blast reaches south-east Europe

06/05/2022

Imperiled World Heritage in Kahuzi Biega Park, DRC

05/05/2022

Bucharest, capital city of Romania

03/05/2022

540 millions years under our eyes in Flinders Ranges, Australia

30/04/2022

Gulf of Montijo wetlands, Panama

29/04/2022

Multiple landslides kill 212+ people in Leyte island, Philippines

28/04/2022

Crops fail after a severe drought affects Morocco

26/04/2022

Ice-free oases in McMurdo dry valleys, Antarctica

23/04/2022

Asbestos Mountains, South Africa

22/04/2022

Mozu-Furuichi kofuns, ancient mounded tombs, Japan

21/04/2022

Moldova, landlocked between Romania & Ukraine

19/04/2022

Sentinel satellites keep the heritage of Envisat high

16/04/2022

Decade Volcano Taal wakes up in the Philippines

15/04/2022

Guantanamo Bay US base & detention camp, Cuba

14/04/2022

Islas de la Bahia, Honduras ( manque l’anglais)

12/04/2022

Site of the 1908 Tunguska Event, Russia

09/04/2022

The long detour of Rio Paraiba do Sul, Brazil

08/04/2022

Large archeological site in a colourful Bolivian valley

07/04/2022

Iron pollution colours River Sajo in orange, Slovakia

05/04/2022

Impact of climate in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru

02/04/2022

Over 500 km² flooded in Mozambique and Malawi

01/04/2022

Off-season cevenol storm affects South of France

31/03/2022

Lights of the shale oil flaring, Bakken Formation, USA

29/03/2022

A large Sahara dust plume reaches South-West Europe

26/03/2022

Dakar hosts the 9th World Water Forum, Senegal

25/03/2022

The wreck of Shackleton’s Endurance found, Antarctica

24/03/2022

Lake Nokoue, fishing ground near the urban heart of Benin

22/03/2022

Lake Vostok, visible 4000m under the ice, Antarctica

19/03/2022

After burning & 2 weeks drifting, Felicity Ace sinks off the Azores

18/03/2022

Women production of spirulina in the Lake Chad region

17/03/2022

Once in a generation flooding in eastern Australia

15/03/2022

Dumpsites of discord, Tunisia

12/03/2022

Dinaride islands in the Adriatic Sea, Croatia

11/03/2022