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First images From Copernicus Sentinel-5A

Handout photo dated October 13, 2025 shows Copernicus Sentinel-5A has delivered its first images after its launch on 13 August 2025, marking a significant milestone in the monitoring of air quality from space. The Sentinel-5 mission provides observations of key air pollutants, essential climate variables, and stratospheric ozone, which is the protective layer shielding life on Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation. This visualisation, created with Sentinel-5A data acquired on 13 October 2025, shows atmospheric concentrations of two trace gases: ozone (O₃) and formaldehyde (HCHO). The image on the left presents the formaldehyde vertical column density. Elevated concentrations along the northwestern coast of Angola are linked to emissions from wildfires, while increased levels over the Central African Republic stem from a combination of fire activity and biogenic emissions. The image on the right shows a global map of ozone. The hole in stratospheric ozone above Antarctica is clearly visible, with column den

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Air Quality Alert in Paris This Weekend - Paris

AirParif announces that for the weekend of August 15, ozone formation from pollutants emitted in the region will occur, with a risk of exceeding the information and recommendation threshold. Air quality will be poor in Île-de-France, and the prefecture has therefore limited speeds on the entire Île-de-France road network. Paris, Ile-de-France, France on August 14, 2025. Photo by Jean Pierre Nguyen Van Hai Barbier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Air Quality Alert in Paris This Weekend - Paris

AirParif announces that for the weekend of August 15, ozone formation from pollutants emitted in the region will occur, with a risk of exceeding the information and recommendation threshold. Air quality will be poor in Île-de-France, and the prefecture has therefore limited speeds on the entire Île-de-France road network. Paris, Ile-de-France, France on August 14, 2025. Photo by Jean Pierre Nguyen Van Hai Barbier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Air Quality Alert in Paris This Weekend - Paris

AirParif announces that for the weekend of August 15, ozone formation from pollutants emitted in the region will occur, with a risk of exceeding the information and recommendation threshold. Air quality will be poor in Île-de-France, and the prefecture has therefore limited speeds on the entire Île-de-France road network. Paris, Ile-de-France, France on August 14, 2025. Photo by Jean Pierre Nguyen Van Hai Barbier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Air Quality Alert in Paris This Weekend - Paris

AirParif announces that for the weekend of August 15, ozone formation from pollutants emitted in the region will occur, with a risk of exceeding the information and recommendation threshold. Air quality will be poor in Île-de-France, and the prefecture has therefore limited speeds on the entire Île-de-France road network. Paris, Ile-de-France, France on August 14, 2025. Photo by Jean Pierre Nguyen Van Hai Barbier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Air Quality Alert in Paris This Weekend - Paris

AirParif announces that for the weekend of August 15, ozone formation from pollutants emitted in the region will occur, with a risk of exceeding the information and recommendation threshold. Air quality will be poor in Île-de-France, and the prefecture has therefore limited speeds on the entire Île-de-France road network. Paris, Ile-de-France, France on August 14, 2025. Photo by Jean Pierre Nguyen Van Hai Barbier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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US: Queens Traffic Lights Out After Severe Thunderstorm Batters NYC

A severe thunderstorm struck New York City on Thursday, June 19, bringing strong winds that uprooted trees and toppled power poles. The storm also caused flooding in streets and led to power outages in some areas. This video shows traffic lights out in Ozone Park, Queens, leading to traffic jam.

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Hosts Han Dian Chen and Sandra

TAIPEI, CHINA - NOVEMBER 27, 2024 - The band Ozone attend the launch party of their concert in Taipei, Taiwan Province, China, November 27, 2024.

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Hosts Han Dian Chen and Sandra

TAIPEI, CHINA - NOVEMBER 27, 2024 - The band Ozone attend the launch party of their concert in Taipei, Taiwan Province, China, November 27, 2024.

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Hosts Han Dian Chen and Sandra

TAIPEI, CHINA - NOVEMBER 27, 2024 - The band Ozone attend the launch party of their concert in Taipei, Taiwan Province, China, November 27, 2024.

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Hosts Han Dian Chen and Sandra

TAIPEI, CHINA - NOVEMBER 27, 2024 - The band Ozone attend the launch party of their concert in Taipei, Taiwan Province, China, November 27, 2024.

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Natural Resources Hearing - Washington

From left to right: Joann Ariola, New York City Council Member (R-District 32), Ozone Park, New York; Jaime Williams, Assembly, member (D-59th District), New York State Assembly, Brooklyn, New York; Eleanor Acer, Senior Director, Refugee Protection, Human Rights First, New York, New York (minority witness); and Kenneth Spencer, Chairman, United States Park Police Fraternal Order of Police, Washington, DC, testify before the US House Committee on Natural Resources hearing “Destroying America’s Best Idea: Examining the Biden Administration’s Use of National Park Service Lands for Migrant Camps” in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA on Wednesday, September 27, 2023. At issue is the proposed migrant shelter at Floyd Bennett Field, an airfield in the Marine Park neighborhood of southeast Brooklyn in New York City. Photo by Ron Sachs/CNP for NY Post/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Natural Resources Hearing - Washington

Joann Ariola, New York City Council Member (R-District 32), Ozone Park, New York, left, testifies before the United States House Committee on Natural Resources hearing “Destroying America’s Best Idea: Examining the Biden Administration’s Use of National Park Service Lands for Migrant Camps” in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA on Wednesday, September 27, 2023. At issue is the proposed migrant shelter at Floyd Bennett Field, an airfield in the Marine Park neighborhood of southeast Brooklyn in New York City. Photo by Ron Sachs/CNP for NY Post/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Natural Resources Hearing - Washington

Joann Ariola, New York City Council Member (R-District 32), Ozone Park, New York testifies before the United States House Committee on Natural Resources hearing “Destroying America’s Best Idea: Examining the Biden Administration’s Use of National Park Service Lands for Migrant Camps” in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA on Wednesday, September 27, 2023. At issue is the proposed migrant shelter at Floyd Bennett Field, an airfield in the Marine Park neighborhood of southeast Brooklyn in New York City. Photo by Ron Sachs/CNP for NY Post/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Natural Resources Hearing - Washington

Joann Ariola, New York City Council Member (R-District 32), Ozone Park, New York, makes closing remarks as she concludes her testimony before the United States House Committee on Natural Resources hearing “Destroying America’s Best Idea: Examining the Biden Administration’s Use of National Park Service Lands for Migrant Camps” in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA on Wednesday, September 27, 2023. At issue is the proposed migrant shelter at Floyd Bennett Field, an airfield in the Marine Park neighborhood of southeast Brooklyn in New York City. Photo by Ron Sachs/CNP for NY Post/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Natural Resources Hearing - Washington

Joann Ariola, New York City Council Member (R-District 32), Ozone Park, New York, makes closing remarks as she concludes her testimony before the United States House Committee on Natural Resources hearing “Destroying America’s Best Idea: Examining the Biden Administration’s Use of National Park Service Lands for Migrant Camps” in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA on Wednesday, September 27, 2023. At issue is the proposed migrant shelter at Floyd Bennett Field, an airfield in the Marine Park neighborhood of southeast Brooklyn in New York City. Photo by Ron Sachs/CNP for NY Post/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Natural Resources Hearing - Washington

Joann Ariola, New York City Council Member (R-District 32), Ozone Park, New York testifies before the United States House Committee on Natural Resources hearing “Destroying America’s Best Idea: Examining the Biden Administration’s Use of National Park Service Lands for Migrant Camps” in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA on Wednesday, September 27, 2023. At issue is the proposed migrant shelter at Floyd Bennett Field, an airfield in the Marine Park neighborhood of southeast Brooklyn in New York City. Photo by Ron Sachs/CNP for NY Post/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Natural Resources Hearing - Washington

Joann Ariola, New York City Council Member (R-District 32), Ozone Park, New York testifies before the United States House Committee on Natural Resources hearing “Destroying America’s Best Idea: Examining the Biden Administration’s Use of National Park Service Lands for Migrant Camps” in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA on Wednesday, September 27, 2023. At issue is the proposed migrant shelter at Floyd Bennett Field, an airfield in the Marine Park neighborhood of southeast Brooklyn in New York City. Photo by Ron Sachs/CNP for NY Post/ABACAPRESS.COM

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GOODBYE FLOURON

GOODBYE FLOURON=Date:1989, Place:JAPAN (Credit:INTERNATIONAL MOTION PICTURE/Kyodo News Images)

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U.S.-LOS ANGELES-UNHEALTHY AIR QUALITY

(230419) -- LOS ANGELES, April 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Vehicles run along a freeway in Los Angeles, California, the United States, on April 19, 2023. Nearly 120 million people in the United States, or more than one in three, live in areas with unhealthy air quality, and people of color are disproportionately affected, according to a new report released on Wednesday. The "State of the Air" 2023 report, released by the American Lung Association, finds that after decades of progress on cleaning up sources of air pollution, about 119.6 million Americans still live in places with failing grades for unhealthy levels of ozone or particle pollution. (Xinhua)

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U.S.-LOS ANGELES-UNHEALTHY AIR QUALITY

(230419) -- LOS ANGELES, April 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Vehicles run along a freeway in Los Angeles, California, the United States, on April 19, 2023. Nearly 120 million people in the United States, or more than one in three, live in areas with unhealthy air quality, and people of color are disproportionately affected, according to a new report released on Wednesday. The "State of the Air" 2023 report, released by the American Lung Association, finds that after decades of progress on cleaning up sources of air pollution, about 119.6 million Americans still live in places with failing grades for unhealthy levels of ozone or particle pollution. (Xinhua)

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Musicians to teach jazz in college

TOKYO, Japan - Jazz musicians Yosuke Yamashita (L), Sadao Watanabe (C) and Makoto Ozone smile after a press conference in Tokyo on May 10, 2010. They will teach a new course on jazz at Kunitachi College of Music in western Tokyo from the academic year beginning in April 2011.

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:Researchers study possible cataracts in Antarctic penguins

TOKYO, Japan - Two Japanese researchers take pictures of Adelie penguins at Langhode Cove in Antarctica to look for possible cataracts as a result of harmful ultraviolet rays penetrating the Earth's atmosphere through the ozone hole over the South Pole. The researchers say they have yet to find any sign of cataracts in the birds. Langhode, home to about 300 penguins, is 25 kilometers from Japan's Showa Base in Antarctica. The ozone hole over the South Pole is now bigger than the Antarctic continent. (Pool photo)

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Sanyo offers washer/dryer using ozone for disinfecting

TOKYO, Japan - Tomoyo Nonaka, chairwoman of Sanyo Electric Co., shows off the company's ''AQUA'' washer/dryer during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 2. The machine creates ozone to disinfect and deodorize suits and stuffed animals that are usually difficult to wash at home.

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'Sick houses' turn attention to natural lumber

TOKYO, Japan - Desks and chairs for primary schools made from unprocessed lumber are displayed at a showroom in the Living Design Center Ozone in Tokyo's Shinjuku.

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Hot-air balloon released in Antarctica for air survey

SHOWA BASE, Antarctica - Japanese researchers release a hot-air balloon at Showa Base in Antarctica on Dec. 26 to survey the distribution of ozone layers and greenhouse gases in the stratosphere. (Pool photo)

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2 arrested over smuggling CFCs from Thailand

NARITA, Japan - Photo shows some of the 21,600 cans containing chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) allegedly smuggled into Japan from Thailand and seized at Narita airport customs. Police said July 10 a Japanese man and a South Korean man have been arrested on suspicion of illegally airmailing in early May the cans of CFCs, which have been banned because they deplete the Earth's ozone layer and cause global warming.

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U.S. honors Japanese scholar for ozone layer work

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuko Matsumoto (file photo), an assistant professor at the Science University of Tokyo's Suwa College in Nagano Prefecture, will be honored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for her role in protecting the Earth's ozone layer. Matsumoto, who was in charge of air pollution issues for Greenpeace International from 1990 to 1998, raised awareness of the issue and promoted the diffusion of advanced technology utilizing substances not harmful to the ozone layer.

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(InTibet)CHINA-MT. QOMOLANGMA-SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION-METEOROLOGICAL SUPPORT (CN)

(220503) -- MOUNT QOMOLANGMA BASE CAMP, May 3, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A scientific research member checks an Ozone flux unit at the Mount Qomolangma base camp on May 3, 2022. China has started a new comprehensive scientific expedition on Mount Qomolangma, the world's highest peak on the China-Nepal border. Weather factors such as temperature, wind speed and humidity will directly affect the completion of scientific research tasks and the safety of research personnel at high altitude. Therefore, a meteorological support team has been launched in safeguards of the scientific expedition. The team is composed of staff members from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, and the Meteorological Bureau of Tibet Autonomous Region, etc. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)

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:Researchers study possible cataracts in Antarctic penguins

TOKYO, Japan - Two Japanese researchers take pictures of Adelie penguins at Langhode Cove in Antarctica to look for possible cataracts as a result of harmful ultraviolet rays penetrating the Earth's atmosphere through the ozone hole over the South Pole. The researchers say they have yet to find any sign of cataracts in the birds. Langhode, home to about 300 penguins, is 25 kilometers from Japan's Showa Base in Antarctica. The ozone hole over the South Pole is now bigger than the Antarctic continent. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Musicians to teach jazz in college

TOKYO, Japan - Jazz musicians Yosuke Yamashita (L), Sadao Watanabe (C) and Makoto Ozone smile after a press conference in Tokyo on May 10, 2010. They will teach a new course on jazz at Kunitachi College of Music in western Tokyo from the academic year beginning in April 2011. (Kyodo)

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Sanyo offers washer/dryer using ozone for disinfecting

TOKYO, Japan - Tomoyo Nonaka, chairwoman of Sanyo Electric Co., shows off the company's ''AQUA'' washer/dryer during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 2. The machine creates ozone to disinfect and deodorize suits and stuffed animals that are usually difficult to wash at home. (Kyodo)

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National Industrial Summit 2020, ozone disinfection

Participants of the National Industrial Summit 2020 undergo an ozone disinfection on September 9, 2020, in Prague, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Roman Vondrous)

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National Industrial Summit 2020, ozone disinfection

A participant of the National Industrial Summit 2020 undergoes an ozone disinfection on September 9, 2020, in Prague, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Roman Vondrous)

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National Industrial Summit 2020, ozone disinfection

Participants of the National Industrial Summit 2020 undergo an ozone disinfection on September 9, 2020, in Prague, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Roman Vondrous)

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National Industrial Summit 2020, ozone disinfection

A participant of the National Industrial Summit 2020 undergoes an ozone disinfection on September 9, 2020, in Prague, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Roman Vondrous)

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a worker with ozone disinfects a public bus against coronavirus

A worker with ozone disinfects a public bus against coronavirus, on March 4, 2020, in Liberec, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Radek Petrasek)

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a worker with ozone disinfects a public bus against coronavirus

A worker measures ozone values after ozone disinfection of a public bus against coronavirus, on March 4, 2020, in Liberec, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Radek Petrasek)

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a worker with ozone disinfects a public bus against coronavirus

A worker measures ozone values after ozone disinfection of a public bus against coronavirus, on March 4, 2020, in Liberec, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Radek Petrasek)

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a worker with ozone disinfects a public bus against coronavirus

A worker with ozone disinfects a public bus against coronavirus, on March 4, 2020, in Liberec, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Radek Petrasek)

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a worker with ozone disinfects a public bus against coronavirus

A worker measures ozone values after ozone disinfection of a public bus against coronavirus, on March 4, 2020, in Liberec, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Radek Petrasek)

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a worker with ozone disinfects a public bus against coronavirus

A worker measures ozone values after ozone disinfection of a public bus against coronavirus, on March 4, 2020, in Liberec, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Radek Petrasek)

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Hot-air balloon released in Antarctica for air survey

SHOWA BASE, Antarctica - Japanese researchers release a hot-air balloon at Showa Base in Antarctica on Dec. 26 to survey the distribution of ozone layers and greenhouse gases in the stratosphere. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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U.S. honors Japanese scholar for ozone layer work

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuko Matsumoto (file photo), an assistant professor at the Science University of Tokyo's Suwa College in Nagano Prefecture, will be honored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for her role in protecting the Earth's ozone layer. Matsumoto, who was in charge of air pollution issues for Greenpeace International from 1990 to 1998, raised awareness of the issue and promoted the diffusion of advanced technology utilizing substances not harmful to the ozone layer.

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Holes in ozone layer confirmed

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the holes in the ozone layer above Antarctica. The holes, which usually disappear in mid-December, lasted until Dec. 26, 1999, the latest day ever recorded in any year. The white parts in the picture show the holes, which are said to be the effect of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) on the earth's atmosphere. The picture, created from data made available by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Dec. 24, 1999, was released by the Meteorological Agency on Jan. 20.