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Europe Becomes World's Fastest-Warming Continent As Heatwaves Disrupt Daily Life
A recent report confirms that Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average, triggering severe heatwaves, environmental damage, and public health red alerts across major nations.
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SpaceX Sends Sentinel-6B to Orbit for Precision Sea-Level Tracking
SpaceX successfully launched the Sentinel-6B ocean-monitoring satellite on November 17, 2025, marking its 500th orbital mission using a reused Falcon 9 booster. Sentinel-6B will extend more than 40 years of continuous sea-level measurement, delivering high-precision global ocean data as part of Europe’s Copernicus climate program. Equipped with a...
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Temperatures Stay Near Historic Highs, Earth Records 3rd-Hottest September
The world just had its third-hottest September on record, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday, as global average temperatures remained stuck near historic highs for yet another month.
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Ariane 6 Launches Metop-SGA1 Weather Satellite into Polar Orbit
Europe’s heavy-lift Ariane 6 rocket completed its third successful launch on Aug. 12, 2025, lifting off from Kourou, French Guiana at 8:37 p.m. EDT. The mission carried Metop-SGA1, an 8,900-pound next-generation polar-orbiting weather satellite operated by EUMETSAT. Placed into an 800 km polar orbit 64 minutes after liftoff, Metop-SGA1 will deliv...
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2024 Set To Be Warmest Year On Record: European Climate Agency
The year 2024 is set to be the warmest on record and the first with an average temperature above 1.5 degrees Celsius, European climate agency Copernicus said on Monday.
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Vega-C Rocket Successfully Returns to Flight with Sentinel-1C Launch After 2022 Failure
The Vega-C rocket has successfully resumed operations, launching the Copernicus Sentinel-1C Earth-observation satellite. After a failure in 2022, Vega-C’s design was updated, allowing it to complete this mission. Sentinel-1C will work alongside Sentinel-1A to enhance Earth’s monitoring capabilities. The launch took place from the Guiana Space C...
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March 2024 Warmest Ever, 12-Month Average Temperature Reaches New Record
The world experienced the warmest March ever due to a combined effect of El Nino conditions and human caused climate change, making it the 10th consecutive month since June 2023 to set a new temperature record, Europe's climate agency said.
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Lost To History, The Strange Story Of The Grave Of Nicholas Copernicus
Nicholas Copernicus was the astronomer who, five centuries ago, explained that Earth revolves around the Sun, rather than vice versa. A true Renaissance man, he also practised as a mathematician, engineer, author, economic theorist and medical doctor
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Global 1-Day Temperature Spikes Above 2 Degrees Celsius For 1st Time: EU Monitor
The global average temperature on Friday was more than two degrees Celsius hotter than pre-industrial levels for the first time on record, Europe's Copernicus climate monitor said Monday, adding Saturday likely continued the unprecedented warming str
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Last 8 Years Were Warmest-Ever Recorded Globally: Report
The last eight years were the warmest on record even with the cooling influence of a La Nina weather pattern since 2020, the European Union's climate monitoring service said Tuesday.
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Europe Launches Fourth Earth Monitoring Satellite
Europe launched a fourth satellite on Tuesday for its Copernicus Earth-monitoring project to track changes in forest cover and air pollution, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced.
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In Delhi, Lamborghini Rams Into Road Divider, Driver Flees
A Rs five-crore Lamborghini Murcielago crashed into a road divider near India Gate in the heart of the national capital last night after the driver lost control over the mean machine and walked off after the sports car was wrecked.
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Barack Obama Heckled Over Immigration Policies in Chicago Appearance
US President Barack Obama was interrupted several times by hecklers during a speech on his immigration policy on Tuesday, and their complaint was that his plan did not go far enough in protecting illegal immigrants from deportation.
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Nicolaus Copernicus's 540th birthday celebrated by animated Google doodle
Nicolaus Copernicus, famed mathematician, astronomer is the subject of Tuesday's Google doodle.
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Europe Becomes World's Fastest-Warming Continent As Heatwaves Disrupt Daily Life
A recent report confirms that Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average, triggering severe heatwaves, environmental damage, and public health red alerts across major nations.
-
SpaceX Sends Sentinel-6B to Orbit for Precision Sea-Level Tracking
SpaceX successfully launched the Sentinel-6B ocean-monitoring satellite on November 17, 2025, marking its 500th orbital mission using a reused Falcon 9 booster. Sentinel-6B will extend more than 40 years of continuous sea-level measurement, delivering high-precision global ocean data as part of Europe’s Copernicus climate program. Equipped with a...
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Temperatures Stay Near Historic Highs, Earth Records 3rd-Hottest September
The world just had its third-hottest September on record, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday, as global average temperatures remained stuck near historic highs for yet another month.
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Ariane 6 Launches Metop-SGA1 Weather Satellite into Polar Orbit
Europe’s heavy-lift Ariane 6 rocket completed its third successful launch on Aug. 12, 2025, lifting off from Kourou, French Guiana at 8:37 p.m. EDT. The mission carried Metop-SGA1, an 8,900-pound next-generation polar-orbiting weather satellite operated by EUMETSAT. Placed into an 800 km polar orbit 64 minutes after liftoff, Metop-SGA1 will deliv...
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2024 Set To Be Warmest Year On Record: European Climate Agency
The year 2024 is set to be the warmest on record and the first with an average temperature above 1.5 degrees Celsius, European climate agency Copernicus said on Monday.
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Vega-C Rocket Successfully Returns to Flight with Sentinel-1C Launch After 2022 Failure
The Vega-C rocket has successfully resumed operations, launching the Copernicus Sentinel-1C Earth-observation satellite. After a failure in 2022, Vega-C’s design was updated, allowing it to complete this mission. Sentinel-1C will work alongside Sentinel-1A to enhance Earth’s monitoring capabilities. The launch took place from the Guiana Space C...
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March 2024 Warmest Ever, 12-Month Average Temperature Reaches New Record
The world experienced the warmest March ever due to a combined effect of El Nino conditions and human caused climate change, making it the 10th consecutive month since June 2023 to set a new temperature record, Europe's climate agency said.
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Lost To History, The Strange Story Of The Grave Of Nicholas Copernicus
Nicholas Copernicus was the astronomer who, five centuries ago, explained that Earth revolves around the Sun, rather than vice versa. A true Renaissance man, he also practised as a mathematician, engineer, author, economic theorist and medical doctor
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Global 1-Day Temperature Spikes Above 2 Degrees Celsius For 1st Time: EU Monitor
The global average temperature on Friday was more than two degrees Celsius hotter than pre-industrial levels for the first time on record, Europe's Copernicus climate monitor said Monday, adding Saturday likely continued the unprecedented warming str
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Last 8 Years Were Warmest-Ever Recorded Globally: Report
The last eight years were the warmest on record even with the cooling influence of a La Nina weather pattern since 2020, the European Union's climate monitoring service said Tuesday.
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Europe Launches Fourth Earth Monitoring Satellite
Europe launched a fourth satellite on Tuesday for its Copernicus Earth-monitoring project to track changes in forest cover and air pollution, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced.
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In Delhi, Lamborghini Rams Into Road Divider, Driver Flees
A Rs five-crore Lamborghini Murcielago crashed into a road divider near India Gate in the heart of the national capital last night after the driver lost control over the mean machine and walked off after the sports car was wrecked.
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Barack Obama Heckled Over Immigration Policies in Chicago Appearance
US President Barack Obama was interrupted several times by hecklers during a speech on his immigration policy on Tuesday, and their complaint was that his plan did not go far enough in protecting illegal immigrants from deportation.
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Nicolaus Copernicus's 540th birthday celebrated by animated Google doodle
Nicolaus Copernicus, famed mathematician, astronomer is the subject of Tuesday's Google doodle.
