After being grounded on the ocean floor for well over four decades, the largest iceberg in the world is on the loose. 

One of the world’s most active volcanoes, Mount Etna, erupted on Nov. 12, 2023, spewing lava and clouds of ash high over the Mediterranean island of Sicily.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo, the largest natural body of water in South America. 

Maps show sea levels in the Pacific Ocean during early October of 1997, 2015 and 2023, in the run up to El Niño events.

The heart of the Nueva Vizcaya Province on Luzon, the largest and most populated island of the Philippines, shows up brightly in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 false-color image.

San Miguel, El Salvador, captured from the International Space Station on Sept. 16, 2023, by ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen during his Huginn Mission.

Following weeks of heat waves and fires, torrential rains unleashed widespread flooding in Central Greece in early September 2023.

Land surface temperatures around Vienna, Austria, on July 14, 2023 were recorded by NASA’s Ecostress instrument, which is carried on the International Space Station. 

A fast-moving wildfire devastated the historic town of Lahaina on Maui, Hawaii’s second-largest island. 

On July 10, 2023, a volcano some 30 kilometers from Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik, erupted following heightened seismic activity in the area.