At the Dies Academicus 2024,  the GIUZ Air Miles Group was honoured with the UZH Team Effort Award 2023 for its pioneering role in reducing flight-related emissions at the University ...

How can we value nature? What does the dramatic loss of biodiversity mean for us? In an interview with the Handelszeitung, Michael Schaepman, founding father of the World Biodiversity Forum, ...

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) jointly released the European State of the Climate 2023 report. The report provides a summary of the ...

Ein neues studentisches Projekt beschäftigt sich mit der Entwicklung der feministischen Geographie am Institut. Nach viel Archivarbeit und Interviews mit Zeitzeug:innen werden nun die ...

Climate change is also affecting our waters. To better adapt and prepare, we need a lot of data from rivers, streams and lakes around the world. This can be collected with the CrowdWater App. ...

We would have triggered so many tipping points in the climate system that it would be an uncomfortable world, says Michael Zemp, Director of the World Glacier Monitoring Service. But if we ...

The new IceAgeCam installation on Felsenegg gives an impressive demonstration of the human influence on climate change. Visitors can immerse themselves in an interactive experience of the ...

In the “City without Papers” project, geography students collaboratively investigate undocumented migrants’ precarious living conditions. This new type of teaching format is devoted to ...

A team from GIUZ and the Swiss Ornithological Institute studied how migratory birds cross the Swiss Alps for the first time using year-round radar measurements: migration intensities, flight ...