The ice-rock avalanche in Blatten: causes and the role of climate change
A couple of days after the tragic and shocking ice-rock-debris avalanche in Blatten on May 28, here are a few points on the underlying physics of the cascade of processes and the role of climate ...
Financing just climate action in Mexican municipalities: challenges and learnings
How can cities in the Global South finance climate action in ways that are both effective and fair? We recently discussed the findings of our SNSF-funded research project "The Urbanization of ...
Als transparente Folien verbinden die «erschreckend schönen Bilder» den Innen- und Aussenraum im Pavillon Le Corbusier der Fondation suisse in Paris. Sie zeigen Fakten und Prognosen zum ...
"We should definitely prepare for more of the kind in the future"
After the devastating landslide in Blatten, Christian Huggel takes a stand in the media. He is a leading expert on the risks, impacts and adaptation options to climate change, focusing on ...
Rethinking work, money and care through video podcasts
How does mobile money shape financial inclusion in Ghana? What happens to urban life when Airbnb takes over neighborhoods? And what role does capitalism play in our love relationships? In the ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
