Satellite imagery acquired by Sentinel-1C and Sentinel-2 provides a detailed view of the ports from which the Global Sumud Flotilla (https://globalsumudflotilla.org/) is scheduled to depart: Genoa (Italy), Barcelona (Spain), Tunis (Tunisia), and Sicily (Italy). The mission is organized in two phases: 31 August 2025: vessels will depart from Genoa and Barcelona. 4 September 2025: additional
The Everglades (or Pa-hay-okee) is a natural region of tropical wetlands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida. The Everglades experience a wide range of weather patterns, from frequent flooding in the wet season to drought in the dry season and is home to scores of interesting plants and animals, many of
In Mauritania, hidden deep into the great Sahara desert, there is a huge and mysterious geologic formation that is hard to spot from ground level, walking around on Earth. It turns out that we really discovered this incredible bull’s-eye in the sand only when we began sending humans into space when the Gemini IV mission (1965), a
There is a place in the middle of the Old Wild West, which in the recent past earned the nickname of “the most bombed place on Earth”. We are in the Nevada Test Site (USA) 105 Kilometers northwest from Las Vegas, where from 1951 till 1992, the US government carried out almost 1000 nuclear bomb
In the last hours Mount Vesuvius is under siege by several fires that are surrounding the mountain’s slopes, spreading for around 2 kilometers and forcing the evacuation of locals from their home (there are indeed several small towns built near the sleeping volcano). A giant smoke trail raised towards the sky and then propagated for
Larsen C ice shelf is situated in the Antarctica continent, in the northwest part of the Weddell Sea, south of Argentina. In the last year Larsen C has been frequently monitored on ground and from satellites because one of the largest iceberg ever discovered started to break from the ice platform. This iceberg, named Behemoth
The Pentagon has released satellite photos of the Syrian base the U.S. attacked on 7 April 2017 in response to Bashar al-Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons, marking the first time the US has become a direct combatant against the Syrian regime. The photo show the aftermath of nearly 60 cruise missile strikes on the
On 5th of May, at around 6 UTC, a blaze started at the ECO-X rubbish depot in Pomezia, a municipality in the Metropolitan City of Rome (41°41′N, 12°30′E). The fire was active for about two days and the cloud of smoke was visible from several kilometres away. Both the fire service and the local health
Bangladesh is one of the largest ships breaking country in the world. This happens there because Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries, environmental standard are very low, and workers are very cheep and willing to risk their life every day for few dollars. In Bangladesh they break 150-200 ships per year. Like in an
Last Saturday Portugal has faced one of the biggest wildfire in its history. Hundreds of firefighters and more than 150 vehicles have been dispatched in order to counteract the flames spreading, fires that even after 24 hours were still churning across the forested hillsides of central Portugal, causing around 62 casualties. The largest part of
Herodotus used for the first time the Greek letter “delta” to indicate the area with a particular triangular shape were the different branches of the Nile river deposits its load in the Mediterranean Sea. The extension of a delta may reach a surface of some hundred kilometers and a delta can be defined as the
