Beech genomes for the future: Adapting forests to climate change
As climate change intensifies, Europe’s forests face increasing stress. The European beech, a key tree species, has been especially harmed by recent droughts – particularly the severe 2018 event. ...
Zu schön für die Schublade: Schweizer Panorama-Juwelen
Beim Umzug von Kartenmaterial in die Universitätsbibliothek sind uns wunderschöne Panoramen aus dem 19. und 20. Jahrhundert aufgefallen. Sie vereinen kartographisches Wissen mit künstlerischer ...
Rocco Bagutti analyzed researchers’ travel behavior for his Master’s thesis. His study, which has been recognized with a semester award, helps to find solutions for reducing emissions caused by ...
The report provides a summary of the climate in Europe, in the Arctic, and globally, based on authoritative data sources compiled by institutions across Europe. The World Glacier Monitoring ...
🎙️Literary podcast: which role could novels play in sustainability transformations and transitions?
If you share my passion for books and the dialogue they engage with our lives and our society – and you speak French (or want to improve it!) – this is a podcast channel for you! I want to ...
Rising temperatures jeopardise the world's critical food crops
Global food security could be severely affected by a marked decline in crop diversity due to future changes in temperature, precipitation and drought, according to a study recently published in ...
Climate change is putting enormous pressure on biodiversity and ecosystems, including forests. In the first week of March, we gathered high-resolution 3D point clouds of the leaf-off beech forest ...
Public opinion on energy sources: the power of reliability
The energy transition is not just a technological challenge - it's a societal one. Public acceptance is crucial for the success of renewable energy projects. A master's thesis analysed 2.6 million ...
The United Nations proclaimed 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation and established 21 March as the annual World Day for Glaciers to sound the alarm that accelerating glacier ...
Die international koordinierte Gletscherbeobachtung hat eine lange Tradition. Was im 19. Jahrhundert mit ersten systematischen Messungen begann, wurde bis heute kontinuierlich weitergeführt und ...
How should we monitor biodiversity quickly, affordably, inclusively, and in detail, with limited resources? This challenge is especially tricky for a more hidden and harder to study piece of ...
Understanding human-nature relationships through the lens of birdwatching 🦉🌿
Think of a natural entity that you love... A tree, a lake, an animal, your pet, a sunset or even a whole forest. And now ask yourself: “What is it that connects me to this natural entity? Its ...
New professorship in Urban Analytics: a warm welcome to Esra Suel!
On March 1, 2025, Esra Suel started her position as Professor in Urban Analytics, establishing a new research group within the GIScience Center at the Department of Geography, University of ...
Documentary film narrates chemicalised dispossession in Eastern India biodiversity hotspot
‘Seed Stories’ (42 min, 2024), a documentary film directed by Chitrangada Choudhury, an Indian journalist, filmmaker and a PhD candidate in Economic Geography at GIUZ, has screened at multiple ...
Robert Weibel was Professor of Geographical Information Science at GIUZ until the end of January 2025. In this interview, he explains how a US president's executive order changed not only the ...
Melting Glaciers Increase Loss of Freshwater Resources and Rise Global Sea Levels
The melting ice from glaciers worldwide is leading to an increased loss of regional freshwater resources. And it is causing global sea levels to rise at ever-greater rates. Since the year 2000, ...
Have you ever encountered a situation when a colleague or a friend was very stressed, very depressed or had other acute mental health troubles? I always felt unsure about whether to say anything ...
Switzerland meets Georgia: Student insights on sustainable mountain futures
Mountain regions face challenges like depopulation, climate change, tourism pressures, and biodiversity loss. In the hybrid course "Sustainable Mountain Development", students from Tbilisi State ...
Climate Change Increases Risk of Successive Natural Hazards in the Himalayas
An international research team has concluded that the Sikkim flood disaster in the Himalayas in October 2023 was caused by some 14.7 million cubic meters of frozen moraine material collapsing ...
Researchers have discovered more than 200 new animal and plant species in the Mekong region of Southeast Asia. In an interview with Radio SRF, Sofia van Moorsel, biodiversity expert at the ...
