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Satellite Image: Puntarenas, Costa Rica
Image of the day: Rising seas threaten the narrow coast of PuntarenasNews

Image of the day: Rising seas threaten the narrow coast of Puntarenas

Puntarenas, Costa Rica stretches along a slim finger of land jutting into the Pacific, clearly visible in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captured on 20 March…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJune 6, 2025 Full article
Image: International event logo
USP and FAPESP bring innovative technologies to international startup fair in FranceNews

USP and FAPESP bring innovative technologies to international startup fair in France

VivaTech is one of Europe's leading technology and startup events; USP and FAPESP will take researchers and disruptive technologies to the event in the areas…
SourceSourceJune 6, 2025 Full article
Graphic news (s. climate, science, nature)
Slain UK journalist’s book on saving the Amazon publishedNews

Slain UK journalist’s book on saving the Amazon published

London, United Kingdom | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Three years after UK journalist Dom Phillips was murdered, his widow and colleagues have published the book he…
SourceSourceJune 6, 2025 Full article
Satellite Image: Nunavut and the Hudson Bay regions, Canada
Image of the day: Smoke from Canadian wildfires spreads across Hudson BayNews

Image of the day: Smoke from Canadian wildfires spreads across Hudson Bay

Wildfires burning across western Canada since May 2025 have forced thousands to evacuate and filled the skies with dense smoke. Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba have…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJune 5, 2025 Full article
Image: AI concept design (s. ABBA, original creators)
Tech sector emissions, energy use grow with rise of AINews

Tech sector emissions, energy use grow with rise of AI

Transparency and accountability on climate action also move higher in period covered by ITU-WBA Greening Digital Companies report Tech sector carbon emissions continued their rise…
SourceSourceJune 5, 2025 Full article
Image: SEA Econet Spans from Key West to South Carolina
Storm ready: FAU Sensing Institute’s weather network delivers real-time forecastingNews

Storm ready: FAU Sensing Institute’s weather network delivers real-time forecasting

SEA Econet spans from Key West to South Carolina As Floridians prepare for an active 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, the most serious threat may not…
SourceSourceJune 5, 2025 Full article
Satellite Image: flooded areas along the Râul Negru tributary of the river Olt in central Romania
Image of the day: Flooding spreads across central RomaniaNews

Image of the day: Flooding spreads across central Romania

Severe flooding inundated parts of central and northern Romania in late May 2025 after days of continuous rainfall overwhelmed rivers and urban drainage systems. Streets,…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJune 4, 2025 Full article
Image: banana fiber
Composites are going low-carbonNews

Composites are going low-carbon

Researchers at EPFL and its startups are exploring innovative composites that are self-repairing, self-curing and reusable, in an effort to help drive the transition to…
SourceSourceJune 4, 2025 Full article
Satellite Image: Mount Etna, Italy (2 June 2025)
Image of the day: Mount Etna’s 2 June eruptionNews

Image of the day: Mount Etna’s 2 June eruption

Mount Etna erupted on 2 June 2025, sending a towering ash column into the sky and generating lava flows and pyroclastic activity from its South…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJune 3, 2025 Full article
Image: Detail of the rice plant
Climate strategies of agri-food giants insufficient: studyNews

Climate strategies of agri-food giants insufficient: study

Paris, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Nestle, PepsiCo and other agri-food giants are "unlikely" to bring about meaningful greenhouse gas reductions in the sector…
SourceSourceJune 3, 2025 Full article
Satellite Image: Tirana, Albania
Image of the day: Tirana seen from spaceNews

Image of the day: Tirana seen from space

In this Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite image acquired on 6 March 2025, Tirana, the capital and largest city of Albania, stretches across the central-western lowlands of…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJune 2, 2025 Full article
Image: Airplane Silhouette on Air during Sunset
Key climate target of airline decarbonisation ‘in peril’: IATANews

Key climate target of airline decarbonisation ‘in peril’: IATA

New Delhi, India | AFP The airline industry's flagship goal of decarbonising by 2050 is now "in peril" due to climate-sceptic policies, including those of…
SourceSourceJune 1, 2025 Full article
Satellite Image: Baa Atoll, Maldives
Image of the day: Coral sanctuaries of Baa Atoll seen from spaceNews

Image of the day: Coral sanctuaries of Baa Atoll seen from space

Fringed with white-sand beaches and teeming with marine life, Baa Atoll in the Maldives stands out not only as a stunning tropical paradise but also…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJune 1, 2025 Full article
Image: Swiss Alps, Switzerland
Image of the day: Glacial collapse devastates Swiss villageNews

Image of the day: Glacial collapse devastates Swiss village

A catastrophic glacial collapse in the Swiss Alps triggered a massive landslide on 28 May 2025, engulfing much of the village of Blatten in the…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskMay 31, 2025 Full article
Satellite Image: The Haweswater Reservoir, United Kingdom
Image of the day: UK drought deepensNews

Image of the day: UK drought deepens

The United Kingdom is heading into summer 2025 under intensifying drought conditions, following what scientists have confirmed as the driest spring on record. Rainfall was…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskMay 30, 2025 Full article
Satellite Image: Lake Alakol, Kazakhstan
Image of the day: Colour-shifting landscape of Kazakhstan’s Lake AlakolNews

Image of the day: Colour-shifting landscape of Kazakhstan’s Lake Alakol

Seasonal changes in eastern Kazakhstan paint a vivid picture in this radar image of Lake Alakol, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission using false-colour processing…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskMay 29, 2025 Full article
Still life with the scales of justice (climate,green justice, Youths sue Trump over US climate orders)
Youths sue Trump over US climate ordersNews

Youths sue Trump over US climate orders

Washington, United States | AFP Twenty-two young Americans sued the Trump administration on Thursday, arguing that its executive orders to expand fossil fuel development and…
SourceSourceMay 29, 2025 Full article
Image: Aerial shot the Swiss village of Blatten after a massive glacier collapse
Switzerland monitoring for flood risk after huge glacier collapseNews

Switzerland monitoring for flood risk after huge glacier collapse

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP Swiss authorities were on Thursday monitoring for possible flood risk in a southern valley, following a massive glacier collapse that created…
SourceSourceMay 29, 2025 Full article
Satellite Image: New South Wales, Australia
Image of the day: Widespread flooding transforms eastern AustraliaNews

Image of the day: Widespread flooding transforms eastern Australia

Three days of intense rainfall in late May 2025 inundated eastern Australia’s New South Wales, triggering severe flooding across the state’s Hunter and Mid North…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskMay 28, 2025 Full article
3D globe graphic (s. climate, flood, water)
Village partially destroyed in Swiss glacier collapseNews

Village partially destroyed in Swiss glacier collapse

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP A massive glacier collapse on Wednesday in southern Switzerland partially destroyed the small village of Blatten, which had been completely evacuated…
SourceSourceMay 28, 2025 Full article
Graphic news (s. climate, science, research, scientists. emission targets, floods, environment)
EU adopts CO₂ targets reprieve for car industryNews

EU adopts CO₂ targets reprieve for car industry

Brussels, Belgium | AFP EU countries gave final approval on Tuesday to a reprieve for European carmakers over new emission targets, as they seek to…
SourceSourceMay 27, 2025 Full article
Image: Aerial view of Okinotorishima, Japan (12 June 2007)
Japan says China conducted research near Pacific atollNews

Japan says China conducted research near Pacific atoll

Tokyo, Japan | AFP Japan has accused China of conducting unnotified maritime scientific research within its exclusive economic zone around its southernmost island in the…
SourceSourceMay 27, 2025 Full article
Satellite Image: Gdańsk, Poland (s. EU Space Days)
Image of the day: Gdańsk hosts EU Space DaysNews

Image of the day: Gdańsk hosts EU Space Days

Today, Gdańsk becomes the European hub for space policy and innovation as it hosts the EU Space Days from 27 to 28 May 2025. Organised…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskMay 27, 2025 Full article
Satellite Images: Tipperary County, Ireland (s. drought)
Image of the day: Drought warning conditions take hold in IrelandNews

Image of the day: Drought warning conditions take hold in Ireland

Since early 2025, parts of Ireland have been affected by higher-than-average temperatures and prolonged dry weather, leading to mounting concern over water availability. Reservoir levels…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskMay 26, 2025 Full article