The Latest Breaking News from Copernicus

The world's oceans are bearing the brunt of a triple environmental crisis, according to the European Union's Earth monitors: global warming, pollution and declining biodiversity. The EU Copernicus programme warns that Africa's coasts, buffeted by marine heatwaves and rising sea levels, are especially vulnerable.

This summer’s heatwaves, droughts, and floods are expected to cost the European economy more than €120 billion in the long term, according to a new study.

If NASA must pull back, Europe is ready to step up — and do so with open arms.

Human-driven climate change intensified the most recent European heatwave by as much as 4C in several cities, raising temperatures to levels that posed serious health risks to thousands of people, scientists reported on Wednesday.

Human-caused climate change made recent European heatwaves up to 4C hotter in many cities, scientists said on Wednesday, pushing temperatures into deadly territory for thousands of vulnerable people.

Heat caused 2,300 deaths across 12 cities, of which 1,500 were down to climate crisis, scientists say

Western Europe sweltered through its hottest June on record last month, as "extreme" temperatures blasted the region in punishing back-to-back heatwaves, the EU climate monitor Copernicus said Wednesday.

Sea surface more than 5C above average, endangering marine life as Europe swelters under record early summer temperatures

Copernicus data shows month was 1.4C above estimated 1850-1900 average used to define pre-industrial level