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Department of Geography

2025

News list

  • Every tenth of a degree counts

    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 melt risks unleashing an avalanche of cascading impacts on economies, ecosystems and communities. Several UZH glaciologists are significantly involved in the underlying research and participate in various international and national events. 

  • Esra Suel

    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 Zurich.

  • A still from the documentary film ‘Seed Stories’. Photo Credit: Chitrangada Choudhury

    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 cultural and educational institutions and been selected for film festivals in India, USA, Italy and Switzerland over the past year. 

  • The pit viper Trimeresurus uetzi is one of over 200 newly discovered animal and plant species. (Image: iNaturalist | 2KRoat CC BY-NC 4.0)

    "We might be underestimating biodiversity loss"

    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 Department of Geography, explains what science can learn from this and whether these species discoveries can put extinction into perspective.