From 8 June 2025, with a peak on 10 June, ICOS Atmosphere stations detected the presence of smoke plumes from North American wildfires, indicated by a sharp increase, up to 200 ppb, in carbon monoxide (CO). 

The smoke plumes were detected by ICOS stations spanning from the Mediterranean region to the southern Scandinavia.

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.

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.

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 issues or any kind of conflict of interest.