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 ...
Ecological crises such as biodiversity loss, climate change and food security are interconnected and must be tackled in a coordinated way. This is one of the core statements of the Nexus ...
The production chain of Stadler Rail, the Swiss-based rail vehicle manufacturer, has been severely affected by the recent floods in Valencia. It will take years to get back to normal. This case ...
Bridging academia and social media: Gallopping with the Critical Pony
The Critical Pony is a project designed to make the field of human geography more approachable and entertaining for a broad audience. Through bite-sized, engaging videos, this initiative tries to ...
Geography of suffering – body maps express what words cannot
There are still no effective treatments for Long Covid. Health geographer Maaret Jokela-Pansini has developed an innovative tool together with patients and shows how social sciences can deepen ...
High altitude dilemmas: Reducing air travel emissions in academia
Academic air travel contributes significantly to universities' greenhouse gas emissions. A study evaluated five air travel reduction measures while also considering the willingness of academic ...
15.4.2025, 09:30: MSc Exam | Isabelle Katharine Ann Bürger: A Sustainable Strawberry Shortcut? Governance of Value Chain Stakeholders for Environmental Upgrading in Horticulture in Huelva, Spain
17.4.2025, 10:00: PhD thesis defense of Mary Ann George: Synergies between Food Security and Biodiversity, and Social-Ecological Resilience in Tropical Agroforestry Systems
23.4.2025, 09:30: MSc Exam | Seraina Brandes: The forest dieback during the 1970s and 1980s in Central Europe - A retrospective analysis using tree-ring width and stable isotopes
