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Dryness threatens agricultural production

Precipitation reduced drought conditions in some areas while heat worsened conditions in other areas.

Three consecutive storms flood the Tejo River

Heat and dryness in summer 2025–26 contributed to fire risk

The first month of 2026 brought intense rainfall and cyclones to many corners of the globe, including central and western Albania.

Sentinel-6B and Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich captured data on Nov. 26 of sea levels across a vast stretch of the Atlantic Ocean.

In the U.S. Pacific Northwest, a potent atmospheric river spurred waves of heavy rainfall that caused landslides and flooding.

This image shows the total precipitable water vapor in the atmosphere at 11:30 p.m. Pacific Time on December 10. It is derived from NASA’s GEOS (Goddard Earth Observing System)

In late October 2025, severe flooding struck Vietnam after days of intense rainfall. In this image, flooded areas along the Vu Gia and Thu Bồn appear in blue tones. Open data from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites provides cloud-penetrating radar imagery, which is essential for tracking flood extent and supporting timely emergency response.

Satellite imagery captures the impact of torrential rains from tropical storms, which caused severe flooding and landslides in central and eastern Mexico.

A region of Nepal better known for flooding has experienced a catastrophic drought.

The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar Earth-observing satellite’s first images of our planet’s surface are in, and they offer a glimpse of things to come as the joint mission approaches full science operations later this year.

Extensive flooding in Pakistan has affected millions of people, destroyed infrastructure, inundated a large portion of the country’s agricultural land, and claimed hundreds of lives. The image on the right shows flooding along major rivers in the region on September 9, 2025. For comparison, the left image shows the area on the same day in 2023, when monsoon rainfall amounts were close to normal.

Wildfires along the Spain–Portugal border in August 2025, shown in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image from 5 September, left extensive burn scars around Castromil, O Barco de Valdeorras, and Bragança, providing vital data for post-fire recovery and protection efforts.

27 August is the first-ever World Lake Day, dedicated to tracking and protecting the health of millions of lakes around the globe. 

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image from 13 August 2025 shows Lake Suchitlan, El Salvador’s largest wetland reservoir and a key source of the country’s hydropower.