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Environment - Earth Sciences - 06.12.2023
What should be done with all the CO2?
What should be done with all the CO2?
Capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and storing it either in recycled concrete aggregate or in geological reservoirs in Iceland is not only technically feasible, but also has a positive carbon footprint.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 04.12.2023
Climate change and... glaciers
Climate change and... glaciers
With increasing temperatures, more heatwaves and less snowfall, glacier melt is accelerating. Whether we will still have water reserves in the form of frozen ice by 2100 depends heavily on efforts to contain the climate crisis.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 30.11.2023
Travelogue Greenland, part 2
Travelogue Greenland, part 2
SLF biologist Christian Rixen writes about his expedition to Greenland in the footsteps of historical botanists - and climate change.

Earth Sciences - Environment - 23.11.2023
Travelogue Greenland, part 1
Travelogue Greenland, part 1
SLF biologist Christian Rixen writes about his expedition to Greenland in the footsteps of historical botanists - and climate change.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 14.11.2023
An advocate of public space
An advocate of public space

Environment - Earth Sciences - 25.10.2023
A summer of intense field-work for the GreenFjord
A summer of intense field-work for the GreenFjord
GreenFjord is a four-year research program intended to investigate how climate change is affecting ecosystems in southern Greenland.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 25.10.2023
GreenFjord project the focus of researchers' efforts over the summer
GreenFjord project the focus of researchers’ efforts over the summer
GreenFjord is a four-year research program intended to investigate how climate change is affecting ecosystems in southern Greenland.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 17.10.2023
CO2 out of thin air
CO2 out of thin air
To prevent irreversible and damaging changes to the Earth's climate system, we need to remove excess (man-made) CO2 from the atmosphere.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 03.10.2023
Collecting Plastic Waste in Pristine Bays
Collecting Plastic Waste in Pristine Bays
Along the coast of East Greenland lie some of the most untouched fjords and glacier landscapes in the world.

Earth Sciences - 12.09.2023
Ocean acidification in coloured stripes
Ocean acidification in coloured stripes

Mathematics - Earth Sciences - 26.06.2023
How a change of perspective caused a sensation
How a change of perspective caused a sensation
Using applied mathematics, Yunan Yang finds solutions to the inverse problems that arise in seismology, weather forecasts, and machine learning.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 06.06.2023
A world in flux
A world in flux
Heavier rain, longer droughts, melting glaciers: climate change has a dramatic impact on the global water cycle.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 17.05.2023
Why the Swiss are shipping CO 2 to Iceland
Yesterday, Swiss President Alain Berset toured the Carbfix plant in Iceland and visited the facilities where the pilot project "DemoUpCARMA" is implemented.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 27.04.2023
WSL/ETH Glaciologist Harry Zekollari receives award for his research
WSL/ETH Glaciologist Harry Zekollari receives award for his research

Earth Sciences - 30.03.2023
"Earthquake in Turkey was an earthquake doublet"
ETH Zurich researcher Luca Dal Zilio offers an insightful summary of the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, shedding light on the complex nature of this event.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 15.03.2023
«Using creative methods to look for solutions»
Manuela Brunner leads the new Hydrology & Climate Impacts in Mountain Regions research group at the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 10.03.2023
Students want to invite the ocean on EPFL campus
Students want to invite the ocean on EPFL campus
To build awareness about the importance of oceans, Sailowtech, a student association, has launched a project to develop low-tech methods for collecting data at sea.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 08.03.2023
'This appointment shows that our work is gaining recognition abroad.'
’This appointment shows that our work is gaining recognition abroad.’

Earth Sciences - Architecture - 07.03.2023
Knowing where earthquakes will cause damage
Knowing where earthquakes will cause damage
The Swiss Seismological Service at ETH Zurich has just introduced the first seismic risk model for Switzerland.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 14.02.2023
An atmospheric researcher with his feet firmly on the ground
An atmospheric researcher with his feet firmly on the ground
Atmospheric chemist Thomas Peter retired at the end of January. A profile of a man who taught us about the properties and processes of suspended particles and helped shape the second-largest department at ETH Zurich.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 31.01.2023
Could the lack of snow signal drought in 2023?
Could the lack of snow signal drought in 2023?
The snowfall level is rising, and the amount of snow falling - if any - is less than usual. As a result, summer and autumn droughts are becoming more frequent.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 31.01.2023
Researching, learning and adapting
Researching, learning and adapting
One of the greatest unknowns in climate change is the question of how particulate matter affects clouds. Yu Wang is using machine learning and satellite data to investigate the surprising role of these tiny particles in the atmosphere. In autumn 2014, Iceland's Holuhraun volcano erupted, spewing daily about 120,000 tonnes of sulphur dioxide into the air at its peak.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 23.01.2023
The man who thinks big
The man who thinks big
Christophe Girot brought landscape architecture into the digital world and taught a generation of architects how to think on a larger scale.

Earth Sciences - Environment - 10.01.2023
A habitable planet
Life has existed on Earth for billions of years. Stabilising mechanisms have helped our planet remain habitable to this day.

Astronomy / Space Science - Earth Sciences - 21.12.2022
NASA's InSight Lander has retired
NASA’s InSight Lander has retired
The lander's team has tried to contact the spacecraft twice without response, leading them to conclude it has run out of energy. NASA's InSight mission has ended after four years of collecting unique science on Mars.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 30.11.2022
A scout of the atmosphere
A scout of the atmosphere
Internationally recognized atmospheric scientist and Distinguished Senior Researcher at Empa: Dominik Brunner is a scientist who has explored his subject area from many angles - with a weatherproof motivation and curiosity that drives him to this day.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 07.11.2022
Green and blue food webs differ
Green and blue food webs differ
Terrestrial and aquatic food webs respond differently to changes in the environment. Understanding these differences is fundamental to identifying the species most important to an ecosystem and to effectively protecting biodiversity. This is shown by a study led by the research institutes Eawag and WSL and published in the journal Nature Communications .

Materials Science - Earth Sciences - 26.10.2022
He makes it light
He makes it light
Belgian-born Wim Malfait is a trained geologist who once searched for gold on behalf of a mining company. Today, he heads the Building Energy Materials and Components laboratory, which develops, among other things, super-lightweight aerogel insulation materials and materials with heat exchange capabilities.

Earth Sciences - 28.09.2022
Swiss glaciers are melting more than ever before
Swiss glaciers are melting more than ever before
2022 was a disastrous year for Swiss glaciers: all ice melt records were smashed by the great dearth of snow in winter and continuous heatwaves in summer.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 24.08.2022
Ecological stability of lakes declining globally over time
Ecological stability of lakes declining globally over time
Of over a thousand lakes studied worldwide, about one in ten shows strange behaviour. In general, there is an increasing tendency for aquatic ecosystems to tip over.

Campus - Earth Sciences - 19.05.2022
Nathalie Dubois becomes titular professor at the ETH Zurich
Nathalie Dubois becomes titular professor at the ETH Zurich

Environment - Earth Sciences - 09.03.2022
New research program will study fjord ecosystems in Greenland
New research program will study fjord ecosystems in Greenland
In a four-year field research program led by EPFL, in association with several other Swiss institutions, scientists will aim to understand the ecosystem of Greenlandic fjords in the context of a changing climate.

Earth Sciences - Environment - 02.03.2022
Fjords in the Swiss Plateau
Fjords in the Swiss Plateau
A team of researchers of the University of Bern supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation drilled a borehole into the Bernese subsoil.

Earth Sciences - 25.02.2022
Lenny Winkel receives Science Innovation Award
Lenny Winkel receives Science Innovation Award

Environment - Earth Sciences - 24.02.2022
Swiss rivers on track to overheat by the end of the century
Swiss rivers on track to overheat by the end of the century
According to an EPFL study, if we take immediate measures to reduce CO2 emissions, we could limit the rise in the temperature of Swiss rivers to 1°C between now and 2090 without drastically affecting their discharge.

Earth Sciences - Chemistry - 28.01.2022
Polluted sediments can be decisive
Polluted sediments can be decisive

Environment - Earth Sciences - 23.12.2021
Climate and Soil Determine Distribution of Plant Traits
Climate and Soil Determine Distribution of Plant Traits
An international research team succeeded in identifying global factors that explain the diversity of form and function in plants. Led by the University of Zurich, the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena and the University of Leipzig, the researchers collected and analyzed plant data from around the world.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 08.11.2021
Pills of sustainability: Humanity’s energy consumption - La Nave di Teseo

Environment - Earth Sciences - 24.09.2021
Deepwater renewal in Lake Geneva in light of climate change
Deepwater renewal in Lake Geneva in light of climate change
Scientists have studied two mechanisms that can help bring oxygen to the depths of a lake - essential for preserving the lake's ecosystem.

Earth Sciences - Environment - 22.09.2021
Tracking down track ballast
Tracking down track ballast
Switzerland may soon be facing a shortage of railway ballast. ETH geologists are heading into the wilds to track down new sources of crushed rocks.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 01.09.2021
New report details Switzerland's geo-energy potential
Switzerland has considerable capacity for carbon storage and a bright future in shallow geothermal energy. These are the two main findings presented in Innosuisse's final report on the 2013-2020 Energy Funding Programme, in the chapter on geo-energy. Lyesse Laloui, a full professor in civil engineering at EPFL, is the chapter's author and the head of a research group on this topic.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 24.08.2021
Helping engineers better predict clay landslides
Helping engineers better predict clay landslides
Norway experiences dangerous landslides due to its clay-rich soil. For her Master's thesis in civil engineering at EPFL, Mathilde Metral outlined steps that the country's geotechnical engineers can take to improve the predictive computer model they're currently developing. The heavy rains that sweep across Europe with growing frequency can be particularly damaging in Norway, where the clay-rich soil is susceptible to landslides.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 28.05.2021
Untapped solar and wind potential in Swiss mountains
Untapped solar and wind potential in Swiss mountains
Scientists at EPFL and the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF have issued recommendations for what type of renewable energy should be produced in Switzerland's various regions, to help achieve the country's goals of carbon neutrality and energy self-sufficiency. According to a new study, the most effective way for Switzerland to become carbon-neutral and energy self-sufficient is to install a combination of wind turbines and solar panels in its Alpine regions.

Earth Sciences - Chemistry - 03.05.2021
2021 International Association of GeoChemistry Fellow Award goes to Janet Hering

Event - Earth Sciences - 28.04.2021
Intriguing scientific insights
Intriguing scientific insights

Environment - Earth Sciences - 19.04.2021
Europe’s largest capacity research centrifuge
The most capable geotechnical research centrifuge in Europe is currently being built on the Hönggerberg campus.

Research Management - Earth Sciences - 04.03.2021
Top rankings in 15 disciplines
Top rankings in 15 disciplines

Environment - Earth Sciences - 18.02.2021
Climate change and Swiss lakes
Climate change and Swiss lakes
A new simulation study shows that climate change risks significantly altering water temperature, ice cover and mixing of many Swiss lakes. Mid altitude lakes are especially under pressure, running the risk of completely losing ice cover and no longer fully mixing twice per year. Such a change would have fundamental consequences for the functioning of lake ecosystems.

Earth Sciences - 28.01.2021
Using science to explore a 60-year-old Russian mystery
Using science to explore a 60-year-old Russian mystery
Researchers from EPFL and ETH Zurich have conducted an original scientific study that puts forth a plausible explanation for the mysterious 1959 death of nine hikers in the Ural Mountains in the former Soviet Union.

Earth Sciences - 28.01.2021
A new take on an old mystery
A new take on an old mystery
Researchers from EPFL and ETH Zürich have conducted an original scientific study that puts forth a plausible explanation for the mysterious 1959 death of nine hikers in the Ural Mountains in the former Soviet Union.
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