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Selected highlights of the Living Planet Symposium in Prague, 9-13 May

Satellite readings show that atmospheric methane and carbon dioxide are continuing to increase despite global efforts to reduce emissions.

René Forsberg joins the programme at the Living Planet Symposium in Prague to discuss collecting gravity data at the South Pole to support GOCE

By providing information on soil moisture around plant roots, ESA’s SMOS satellite is helping to forecast crop yield and monitor drought

Noel Gourmelen joins the programme at the Living Planet Symposium in Prague to discuss a new way of processing CryoSat data over ice sheets

Technology image of the week: this ice drill has been designed to penetrate 1–2 m into the surface of the Moon

Thousands of scientists are at the Living Planet Symposium in Prague this week to present the latest findings on our changing planet. Between the mountains of data coming from multiple satellites and the high level of expertise needed to translate them into useful information, the results are not always easy to understand.

Presented at the Living Planet Symposium, this map uses radar images from Sentinel-1A to show that Antarctic Peninsula ice flows up to a metre per day

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet tries out a spacesuit

With more than two years of measurements by ESA’s Swarm satellite trio, changes in the strength of Earth’s magnetic field are being mapped in detail.

Europe’s latest Galileo satellites have been filled with fuel in preparation for their joint launch on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 24 May.

As the smallest planet in the Solar System crossed the fiery face of the Sun on Monday 9 May, one of ESA’s smallest satellites was watching

Wolfram Mauser, Chairman of the Earth Science Advisory Committee, joins us at the Living Planet Symposium in Prague to discuss some of the highlights from ESA’s Earth Explorer missions