World Maritime Day 🌊⚓️
The Bosphorus in Turkye is the strait that connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, separating two parts of the city of Istanbul.
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Irbe Strait , Estonia, Latvia
Irbe Strait constitutes over 27km from the main exit from the Gulf of Riga to the Baltic Sea, between the Sõrve peninsula in Estonia and the Courland peninsula in Latvia.
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💧Built in 1986, the Zhinvali Reservoir in eastern Georgia is an artificial lake created by a hydroelectric dam supplying electricity to the capital Tbilisi.
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World Humanitarian Day August 19
Opened in 1992 by the UNHCR, Hagadera refugee camp is one of 6 Somali refugee camps in Kenya, near the town of Daabab with half a million inhabitants.
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Quedlinburg is a tourist town in central Germany, founded in the 10th century; the medieval town is surrounded by Germany's largest concentration of organic farmers.
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Losinj Island, Croatia
Over 33km in length but with a width varying from 4.75km to 0.25km, Losinj Island offers spectacular maritime landscapes for European tourists.
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Seiland National Park, Norway
The Seiland National Park in Norway was created in 2006 to protect its isolated lands and the two deep fjords.
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💧The Fierza Reservoir is a reservoir in Albania and Kosovo. The Drin River and parts of the White Drin and Black Drin also runs through the reservoir.
The Albanian side of the lake has many canyons and some small islands.
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World Day to Combat Desertification & Drought, Almeria, Spain.
The Almeria region in Spain is famous for being home to the largest concentration of greenhouses in the world, covering 26,000 hectares
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In the Australian state of Queensland, the Great Sandy Strait is famous for being home to the world's largest sand island, Fraser Island.
There are world’s best observable examples of ancient sand dunes and the tallest and most complex rainforest system : https://sobloo.eu
Known as one of the 7 Natural Wonders of Portugal, the Ria Formosa lagoon is a protected area in the Algarve. It is renowned for its constant changes due to the continuous movement of winds, currents and tides.
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Located on the northern shore of Lago Maggoire, Locarno is the town with the warmest climate in Switzerland, with 2,300 hours of sunshine annually!
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The Corn Belt area traditionally runs through Midwestern United States covering Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, eastern Nebraska, and eastern Kansas, in which corn and soybeans are the dominant crops accounting for 50% of US production. Sentinel-2 👉🏻https://sobloo.eu
The Lake District is England’s largest National Park 2,362 km2 and home to the largest lakes and highest mountains in England, including Scafell Pike, which is 978m high.
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Crooked Forest, Poland 🌳
The Crooked Forest is a grove of oddly-shaped pine trees located near the town of Gryfino, West Pomerania, Poland.
There is much mystery around why the pine trees are shaped in such a way.
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Earth Day, Krakatoa volcano 🌋
The active volcano is in the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, between Sumatra and Java. The cone on the island in the centre of the archipelago appeared in 1923 and has grown into a dozen explosions at an altitude of 300m today.
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Flowers route, Holland 🌷
No bends or hills but fields of multicolored flowers on the 40 km road between Haarlem and Naaldwijk, the main place of flower bulbs exported to the gardens all over the world.
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Mediterranean Forest Week, 21-25 March 2022
The restoration of Mediterranean Forest and ecosystems is the central topic of the 7th Mediterranean Forests Week.
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March 14, International Day for Actions for Rivers.
Rivers support the world's greatest biodiversity and provide the livelihoods of people but less than 10% of the world's river basins are protected.
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Santorini Archipelago, Greece
The 2 main islands are separated by a bay made up of a submerged caldera from a volcanic eruption around -1645 BC and the central island results from an eruption on 1950. Sentinel-1 Data available from https://sobloo.eu.
Lahti, Finland
Titled European Green Capital 2021 by the European Commission, Lahti, 100 km north of Helsinki, is the gateway to the Finland’s Lake District which has more than 188,000 lakes.
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Prosecco wine, Italia
On the 2019 UNESCO World Heritage Site of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, in northeastern Italy, is cultivated in narrow terraces, the vineyards produce Prosecco wine, white or sparkling. Sentinel-2 available from https://sobloo.eu.
The EU Copernicus Horizon 2035 begins this week in Toulouse!
With its most extensive #Earth Observation (EO) constellation, Airbus has been a trusted data provider of the CCM from the beginning and hopes to contribute even more in the future.
#Occitanie#EUsummit#Copernicus
Photovoltaic Super Park, Spain
Located near the city of Guillena, north of Seville in the sunny region of Andalusia, the photovoltaic Superparc connected to the grid by 2020 with a capacity of 121 MWp. Sentinel-2 image:https://sobloo.eu
Malatese archipelago, Republic of Malta
The smallest of the European states is made up of a total of 8 islands with high cliffs cut by coves to the west and a low rocky coast offering many marinas.
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Asirana Island, Italy
At the end of a string of islands, Asinara Island forms the northwestern tip of Sardinia, it is home a Natural Park to protect a species of albino donkeys.
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Hajdúszoboszló, Hungary
With the discovery in 1925 of sources tinged with natural iodine, the town of Hajdúszoboszló on the eastern border of Hungary, turned to spa tourism.
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Halfway between Scotland and Iceland, the mega-cliffs culminating at 750m are interspersed with fjords which structure the 18 Faroe Islands in parallel.
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#NewCairo is a new city located in the Arabian Desert between Cairo and Suez. #Construction began in 2001 in order to build a new administrative city which would alleviate congestion in downtown Cairo.
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#Copernicus for #weather monitoring
#StormArwen has brought stormy winds 🌬️and polar temperatures 🥶across the UK
▶️The first snow ❄️of the season has fallen in several parts of Scotland
⬇️Snowy #Edinburgh, as seen by #Sentinel2🇪🇺🛰️on 28 November
#Sentinel2 image of Isla Contoy, near Cancún, #Mexico.
Isla Contoy is considered one of the most important nesting places for sea birds in the Mexican Caribbean with more than 150 species of birds🐦
The Danish Meteorological Institute reported temperatures of more than 20°C this summer, more than twice the normal average in northern Greenland.
Ocean levels could rise between 10 and 18cm by 2100 because of the melting Greenland ice sheet.
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#Copernicus for #COP26
Copernicus helps to monitor biological activity and water quality all around the world
This #Sentinel2🇪🇺🛰️image shows the Ashmore coral reef in Australia 🇦🇺 on 26 August 2021
Syria suffered from a devastating drought in 2020 and 2021, affecting 1.3 million people according to the UN. 95% of those affected live in the northeastern region which is home to several refugee camps.
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The Sudanese government is launching in 2021 a project to renovate the irrigation canals in the Gezira region between the Blue Nile and the White Nile, to revive cotton production, which represented a third of exports in 1970.
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