This year saw the successful conclusion of the 8th ICOS Summer School held at Hyytiälä Forest Station, Finland.
Running from 5th-15th May 2025, 35 students from Europe and beyond spent the best part of two weeks together learning about the carbon cycle and participating in a variety…
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Throughout the ten years of ICOS ERIC, the number of data downloads has increased steadily, as the influence of ICOS has grown and more users have found their way to ICOS data. In 2024, ICOS reached the milestone of more than 500,000 data downloads.
The positive trend has continued into…
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Since mid May and through June, wildfires have been raging in Canada and the USA. The plumes caused by the fires have now reached Europe, as observed by ICOS Atmosphere stations spanning from South Europe to Scandinavia.
From 8 June 2025, with a peak on 10 June, ICOS…
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ICOS data provides vital insights into the impacts of major global events on greenhouse gas emissions and the carbon cycle. From quantifying the atmospheric emissions of the Nord Stream pipeline leak to assessing carbon uptake during extreme droughts and measuring the reduction in CO₂ emissions…
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Ondrej Hradil has been selected as chair of the ICOS Ethical Advisory Board (EAB), with Steffen Foss Hansen selected as vice chair.
The role of the EAB is to advise and periodically report on ethical issues, such as scientific ethics, data-related ethical issues, discrimination…
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ICOS participates in the 3rd UN Ocean Conference, taking place in Nice 9–13 June 2025. The overarching theme of the Conference is “Accelerating action and mobilizing all actors to conserve and sustainably use the ocean”. Below are the key messages for ICOS for UN Ocean…
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ICOS data was used by upper secondary school students in Finland as part of a course called Open Data. The course was taught to second-year students at the Helsinki Upper Secondary School of Natural Sciences. The course taught important researcher skills and helped to improve scientific literacy…
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This year, ICOS celebrates its 10-year anniversary as an ERIC. In the decade that has passed, the ICOS network of greenhouse gas measurement stations has expanded from eight countries to sixteen. In 2015, the ICOS network consisted of 90 stations in Belgium, Germany, Finland, Italy, Netherlands…
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A massive fire broke out at University of Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy, on 4th June 2025, destroying a building at the Agricultural and Forestry Faculty. Staff, students and faculty were evacuated from the premises and there are no known casualties at this point.
In tackling the blaze, the…
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The Porcupine Abyssal Plain Observatory (PAP-SO) located in the Northeast Atlantic, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. The observatory has been a part of ICOS network of Ocean stations since the beginning of ICOS.
Started in 1985, at 4,850 m depth, the…
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