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CarbonARA: International Climate Science Team Launches Groundbreaking Campaign in the Amazon

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European Space Agency (ESA) has launched the CarbonARA project, led by the Earth Observation and Wildfire Research Group and the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) at King’s College London. CarbonARA brings together a skilled, interdisciplinary team of UK, European, and Brazilian partners to deliver an ambitious field campaign in the eastern Amazon.
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MicroCarb Delivers First Observations from Space

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Launched on July 25, the MicroCarb satellite has successfully carried out its first Earth observations on August 28. The initial data were collected over the Amazon Basin — a priority region for the mission due to its key role in the global carbon cycle and the limited coverage of ground-based CO₂ monitoring stations.

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MetOp-SG-A1 – New ESA Satellite to Boost Climate and Weather Monitoring to Launch

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Today an ESA Ariane 6 rocket will launch MetOp-SG-A1 the first of a new generation of EUMETSAT satellites into a polar orbit around 820 km above the Earth’s surface. The satellite will circle the globe each day, gathering detailed information to support climate science, environmental monitoring and weather forecasting.
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Applications Now Open: Access Cutting-Edge Spectroscopic Equipment for Your Research

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The NERC Field Spectroscopy Facility (FSF) is now accepting applications for its Summer 2025 loan period, open until 2 June 2025. Researchers supported by NERC and the wider UKRI community are invited to apply for free access to the facility’s suite of high-resolution, portable spectroscopic instruments—along with a range of expert support services—from July 2025 to May 2026.
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NCEO captures real-time imagery of Hurricane Beryl

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Hurricane Beryl has ripped across the Caribbean with winds of 240km/h (150mph) causing extensive damage including tearing roofs from buildings, uprooting trees and devastating the islands in its path. Peaking at Category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale on the 2nd July, indeed Beryl is the earliest Category 5 system ever recorded, since the scale was first introduced in 1974.
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Earth Observation DataHub End User and Stakeholder Forum July 2024

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he Earth Observation DataHub (EODH) is a UK pathfinder project that will support government, business and academia with access to global Earth Observation data.  The Hub’s development commenced earlier this year and this event will update stakeholders and potential users on the path to system deployment and availability.
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