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16/10/2026

Latitude 0° : step 6.
The Maldives is an island nation in the Laccadive Sea.
The country consists of a total of 1,199 islands, of which just over 200 are permanently inhabited.
This myriad of islands and islets is scattered across an extremely vast area (nearly 90,000 km²) stretching more than 800 kilometers in a latitudinal direction.
The islands of the Maldives are atolls—that is, ancient volcanic islands whose rocks have “disappeared” due to erosion and subsidence below sea level as a result of the very slow cooling of the oceanic lithosphere.
This chain of ancient volcanic islands originated from the hot-spot magmatism of Réunion and reflects the northward movement of the Indian tectonic plate.
After the volcanic rocks disappeared, only the coral reefs—which continue to grow along the island’s former perimeter—remain.
Due to climate change, these islands are threatened with extinction. Sea levels are rising, and the Maldives are expected to disappear beneath the waves by the end of the 21st century because of their low elevation: the highest natural point is 2.3 meters above sea level.

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09/10/2026

Latitude 0°, step5
Forest fires are set during the dry season to clear forest areas and plant oil palms. This oil is used extensively by the agri-food and cosmetics industries around the world.
These fires generate heavy smoke—known as “haze”—that can reach as far as Singapore, visible in the northern part of the image. This has been a source of tension between this small nation, which declared its independence in 1965, and Indonesia, its giant neighbor.

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02/10/2026

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The Gilbert Islands have been inhabited by Micronesian peoples for about two thousand years.
Rediscovered by Europeans, they became the British Protectorate of the Gilbert Islands in 1892.
In 1916, they were merged with the Ellice Islands to form the British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands.
It is off the coast of the Gilbert Islands that the Pequod, Captain Achab’s famous whaling ship in Herman Melville’s novel "Moby-Dick", is said to have sunk.

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25/09/2026

Ecuador lies on the Pacific Ring of Fire at the junction of three tectonic plates:
the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate, which is itself divided into a northern Andean plate and the Carnegie Ridge.
The Nazca Plate is subducting beneath the other two plates, a process that involves significant volcanic and seismic activity.
The description of the seismic source indicates a mechanism typical of a subduction earthquake, involving a sudden release of stress between the two plates—the Nazca Plate and the overlying South American Plate—with the earthquake likely occurring along the subduction zone.
On April 16, 2016, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck this region.
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11/09/2026

The river flows eastwards, gathering tributaries along the way; it becomes the Marañón, then the Solimões as it crosses Brazil, and finally, at Manaus, it meets the dark waters of the Rio Negro and is simply known as the Amazon for its final 1,500 kilometres.
It flows into the Atlantic Ocean, 6,992 km from its source, at the equator on the north coast of Brazil, between the states of Pará and Amapá.
The ocean current pushes the river’s plume of fresh water outwards for more than 200 km into the Atlantic;
sailors of old knew they were near South America when they could draw buckets of fresh water from the open sea.

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04/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS
We'll soon come back on the travel "Latitude zero" but this event must be shared now.
In early August 2026, an ice island as large as Manhattan broke away from the Petermann Glacier.
This break-off is described in a press release issued by the University of Ottawa, following several years of anticipation.
Glaciologists had been monitoring the progression of the fractures on this floating ice shelf from space.
This broken-off piece covers 76.4 square kilometres and is up to 150 metres thick in places.
The team anticipates two further sections, measuring approximately 94 and 84 square kilometres respectively.
With this first piece, the total area lost would amount to 254 square kilometres, or around 22 per cent of the total.
Such ice masses are unusual in the Arctic, unlike in the Antarctic seas.
No equivalent loss of floating ice had affected the Petermann Glacier since 2012.
An ice mass of this size can retain its cohesion for several years. Its flat profile explains why it is referred to as an ‘ice island’ rather than a conventional iceberg.

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28/08/2026

Latitude zero, road to the west, n°1.
The name ‘Libreville’ was first given to the village founded in 1849 to accommodate slaves freed from a Brazilian slave ship that had been boarded off the coast, at a time when the slave trade – formally banned since 1848 – was still continuing in the Gulf of Guinea.
The freed slaves were taken aboard and thus reached Gabon.
From then on, Libreville served as the starting point for the French colonisation of Gabon towards the end of the 19th century.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Libreville became the capital of French Congo, before losing this status to Brazzaville in 1904.
It was from Libreville that many freedom fighters set out, joining Force L – which would later become the 2nd Armoured Division under the future French Marshal Leclerc – and made their way to Chad.
The column crossed North Africa to liberate occupied France in 1944.

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21/08/2026

Whilst the news is showing us images of Western Europe parched, scorched and baked by nearly 10 weeks
of abnormal heat and a lack of rain, we’ve decided to bring you a bit of cool relief.
This mosaic shows southern Greenland in summer.
Can you see those white dots near the coast?
They are icebergs – literally ‘mountains of ice’.
The close-ups of the east and west coasts clearly show these icebergs breaking away from the glaciers.
On the west coast, you can just make out an airport runway and the small town of Ilulissat.

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07/08/2026

S2GM creates composite images from several photographs by selecting the best pixels.
You can also set the resolution of these pixels: 10m x 10m, 20m x 20m or 60m x 60m.
And sometimes, even at the highest possible resolution, the image still looks pixelated!
No, this isn’t a mistake – these are fields in the south-west of San Francisco.
Half-mile squares that contrast with a desert landscape characterised by curves.
This geometry and the contrast create the illusion of pixelation.

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31/07/2026

On the other side of the world from the JRC’s offices in Brussels … lies the Pacific Ocean.
The rockiest land is Chatham Island (in New Zealand Māori: Wharekauri; in Moriori: Rekohu), a New Zealand island situated some 800 kilometres east of the South Island, in the South Pacific Ocean.
It forms part of the Chatham Islands archipelago, of which it is the largest and most populous island.
European contact began in 1791, with a proposed sale to Germany in 1841 which ultimately fell through, leading to the islands’ incorporation into New Zealand in 1842.
Today, the islands have a population of 620, with Waitangi as the main settlement, and their economy is based on conservation, tourism, agriculture and fishing.
The Chatham Islands have their own time zone, 45 minutes ahead of mainland New Zealand.

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