3+ week, 5+ day ago   (672+ words) ETH Zürich Arno Schlüter, do we really need more air conditioning to beat the heat? Extreme summer temperatures have sent demand for air conditioning soaring, yet building-systems expert Arno Schlüter regards it as a solution only in special cases. For…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (297+ words) Severe wildfires are raging across Europe. ETH researcher Christine Eriksen argues that destructiveness of wildfires is often determined by social and cultural processes. Could Switzerland face similar problems? Countries such as Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia were traditionally not considered wildfire-prone…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (551+ words) The removal of CO₂ from the atmosphere is considered an important tool in the fight against climate change – but has so far been an energy-intensive and expensive process. Now, researchers have developed a new method that efficiently binds carbon dioxide and…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (725+ words) Staffnet ETH Zürich Prix Schläfli for Geosciences for Julian Rogger How climate change affects plants is right in front of our eyes. But what is the opposite like? What role does the vegetation system play in regulating the climate? This…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (378+ words) In the fight against the climate crisis, countries are pinning great hope in reforestation projects. In a new study, ETH Zurich researchers show that the location in which reforestation is taking place is usually more important than the number of…...

6+ mon, 3+ day ago   (698+ words) ETH Zürich Climate policies: The swing voters that determine their fate A large-scale international study spanning 13 EU countries shows that when it comes to climate policy proposals, the decisive factor is not the pro- or con-camps that are decisive, but…...

6+ mon, 5+ day ago   (449+ words) Biodiversity has suffered greatly worldwide. Companies should also do more to protect it. However, they need reliable indicators that quantify the success of measures taken to benefit nature, writes ETH ecosystem researcher Loïc Pellissier. The Swiss Biodiversity Forum of the…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (594+ words) An international research team has recovered the longest sediment core ever drilled from beneath an ice sheet. The core preserves evidence of climate changes spanning millions of years and will help improve predictions of how the West Antarctic Ice Sheet…...

1+ year, 1+ week ago   (661+ words) Measurements analysed by an international research team led by ETH Zurich show that the global ocean absorbed significantly less CO₂ than anticipated during the unprecedented marine heatwave in 2023. “This sudden warming of the ocean to new record temperatures is challenging for…...