Summer 2024 hottest ever recorded on the planet, EU climate change monitor says

Scientists have confirmed that summer 2024 broke global heat records for the second consecutive year, making 2024 likely to be the hottest year in recorded history. Data from Copernicus, Europeโ€™s climate change service, shows June to August as the hot…

Donโ€™t go head-to-head with Musk on space internet, satellite CEO tells Europe

Europe should look beyond space internet and start planning for a military-grade surveillance system instead.

EUโ€™s IRISยฒ satellite plan runs into mega complications against SpaceXโ€™s Starlink

Elon Musk’s Starlink is stealing a march on the EU’s fledgling alternative.

Large-scale and intense wildfires carrying smoke across northern hemisphere

Late spring and early summer blazes in Canada, Alaska and eastern Russia add to carbon emissionsThe northern hemisphere has had a large number of intense wildfires in the first half of summer, carrying vast amounts of smoke across Eurasia and North Ame…

Letโ€™s be a bit more honest about what a โ€˜European identityโ€™ looks like

Emphasizing Europeโ€™s โ€œJudeo-Christianโ€ heritage and looking only to antiquity betrays the European project, excluding the various peoples and entities that shaped the Continent.

Supporting the EUโ€™s green priorities with Copernicus Marine and EMODnet [Promoted content]

The European Maritime Day is the annual event dedicated to discussing maritime affairs and the blue economy. This year’s edition offers an excellent opportunity to explore the innovative marine data services that support the implementation of the EU’s …

Commissionerโ€™s offering of EU โ€˜solidarityโ€™ with Iran creates storm

“European solidarity? With whom. And with whose money?” one MEP asked.

Iranโ€™s President Ebrahim Raisi dies in helicopter crash

Raisi had been tipped as a possible successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Brussels slams Berlinโ€™s โ€˜ill-foundedโ€™ effort to delay EU satellite project

Germany’s Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck wants to suspend the IRIS2 satellite project; the EU isn’t giving way.

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Europe baked in โ€˜extreme heat stressโ€™ pushing temperatures to record highs

Europeans are dying from hot weather 30% more than they did two decades ago, report findsScorching weather has baked Europe in more days of โ€œextreme heat stressโ€ than its scientists have ever seen.Heat-trapping pollutants that clog the atmosphere helpe…

Space wars: Europeโ€™s master plan to counter Elon Muskโ€™s Starlink

The Starlink satellite system is crucial for the Ukrainian military, but there are problems.

Europeโ€™s Ariane-6 rocket maiden flight expected by summer, space agency boss says

Europeโ€™s last generation rocket launcher Ariane6โ€™s first flight is planned for the summer, the European Space Agencyโ€™s boss said on Thursday (11 January), after almost three years of delay, giving the continent hope for newfound access to space.

Itโ€™s official: Global temperatures soared to a new record in 2023

And 2024 may bring more of the same.

UK signs agreement to rejoin EUโ€™s Horizon science program

British researchers will again participate in the scheme from the beginning of next month.

European Space Agency meeting to dodge manned spaceflight

SNEAK PEEK โ€” The European Space Agency will hold a meeting today in Spain, to discuss the long-delayed Ariane 6 rocket system. โ€” France is muscling into new defense contracts in countries Russia considers its sphere of influence. โ€” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired his special operations forces commander without explanation. Goodย morning, and welcomeย toย Morningย Defense. Tips [โ€ฆ]

EU going cold on extra โ‚ฌ20B Ukraine arms fund?

SNEAK PEEK โ€” EU leaders look unlikely to agree easily on a four-year โ‚ฌ20 billion fund to help Ukraine keep sourcing arms and training its soldiers. โ€” The Commission has opened a consultation on its long-promised European Defence Industrial Strategy. โ€” Sweden has suggested cutting EU spending on space by โ‚ฌ1 billion until 2027 in [โ€ฆ]

After Brexit, Britain and Europe embrace ever-closer union

Rishi Sunak has fundamentally changed the nature of the post-Brexit relationship.

Supercharged storm wrecks Greeceโ€™s breadbasket for years to come

Flooded region of Thessaly produces a quarter of the country’s food.

Horizon Brexit row fixed? Now letโ€™s sort electric vehicles, Rishi Sunak tells EU

Research deal ‘demonstrates that our relationship with our European partners is positive, itโ€™s constructive,’ says British PM.

UK joins EU Copernicus, Horizon research programmes after agreeing rebate

The United Kingdom will join the European Union’s satellite programme for Earth observation and Horizon Europe research scheme with a rebate in its financial contribution to compensate for the years it has missed, it announced on Thursday (7 September).