This category is a gallery of the images of the month
Sargassum near Cape Verde
Sargassum algae are historically known to populate the center of the North Atlantic subtropical gyre, off Florida. However, since 2011 their region of presence has expanded drastically. Sargassum now also proliferate in a large tropical region of the Atlantic, from the Antilles to West Africa. During the 2020 edition of the Vendée Globe race, the […]
Satellite images reveal the extent of Australia’s wildfires
Australia was hit by a catastrophic fire season with massive wildfires torching the country from September 2019 to February 2020. The devastating fires posed severe safety and environmental problems, killing at least 33 people and an estimated 1 billion animals, and destroyed thousands of buildings and millions of hectares of land. Besides damages on the […]