
July 15, 2025
Plants improve soil carbon storage, but they can disrupt it too
Plants can capture CO2 from the atmosphere and turn it into building blocks they use to grow. Ultimately, they send a large portion belowground through their roots.

June 10, 2025
Alps could face a doubling in torrential summer rainfall frequency as temperatures rise by 2°C
Intense, short-lived summer downpours are expected to become both more frequent and more intense across Alpine regions as the climate warms.

June 10, 2025
Rethinking Past Ocean Circulation to Refine Future Climate Models
An international study led by the University of Lausanne reveals that deep ocean currents in the North Atlantic stayed active during two extremely cold and well-studied periods of the last ice age.

June 4, 2025
From commitment to collective action: Launch of the Culture for the Planet Alliance
A major step forward in the sustainability transition of the arts and cultural sector on a global scale is taking place.

May 26, 2025
Melting of Greenland’s ice sheet: how ice slabs regulate meltwater runoff into the sea
Scientists working at the universities of Fribourg and Lausanne have developed a model for the way Greenland’s meltwater drains into the sea.
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Climate change in the fjords of southern Greenland
A interdisciplinary research project will be launched in summer 2022 In the framework of the Greenlandic Fjord ecosystems in a changing climate: Socio-cultural and environmental interactions project funded by the Swiss Polar Institute, Laine Chanteloup (Institute of Geography…
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Micropyrites: a signature of life
An international team coordinated by Johanna Marin Carbonne (ISTE) has successfully measured micropyrites in modern microbial mats, in Cuba and Mexico. They present their results in a new publication of Geochemical perspective letters. The biological…
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Biodiversity restoration: local projects under scrutiny
What can we learn from actions led by Indigenous peoples and local communities? Using ecological as well as social methods, Gretchen Walters (IGD), Olivier Hymas (CIRM) and Jenny Kelleher (IUCN) are launching “NARROW: Narratives on Restored Water” in…
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The multiple facets of SIMS in Switzerland
Prof. Marin-Carbonne, Prof. Meibom, Prof. Rubatto, Prof. Baumgartner, Dr Bouvier, Dr Escrig, Dr Bovay, and M. Plane in front of the SwissSIMS in the Center for Advanced Surface analysis (CASA). A recent publication by Johanna…
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Realize a project to create a start-up?
Meeting with two alumni of the FGSE (IDYST) Federico Amato and Fabian Guignard, former young Their project was supported by the UCreate3 accelerator program of the UNIL Entrepreneurship and Innovation HUB in autumn 2020. They share this…
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Waste management in South Asia: what impact of the COVID-19 pandemic?
How did waste management change during the current pandemic ? René Véron and Swetha Rao Dhananka work together since more than ten years in South Asia. Now they initiate an SNSF-SPIRIT project in Nepal and Sri Lanka to…
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What happens to biodiversity when glaciers disappear?
Biodiversity Change is the label of a new research group at the University of Lausanne that is attempting to answer this question. Global environmental change, in particular rising temperatures, is causing alpine glaciers to retreat and disappear. The consequences…
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How climate change affects extreme rainfall ? A new Eccellenza professor at FGSE addresses this issue
How climate change impacts hydrology? And how can we better prepare for the future challenges of hydrological hazards and risks? The desire to find answers to these burning questions motivates the research of Nadav Peleg,…
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A Visual Atlas for Soil Micromorphologists
If you want to learn about the innermost nature of soils, discover the new Atlas of Soil Micromorphology that has just been published. This reference book has been published in Open access by Professor Eric Verrecchia (Institute of…
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Interview with Céline Rozenblat about the Handbook of Cities and Networks
Céline Rozenblat (Institute of Geography and Sustainability, FGSE, University of Lausanne) and Zachary Neal (Michigan State University) edited the Handbook of Cities and Networks published in July 2021. This handbook provides a broad overview of contemporary research on…
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Moulting: the behaviour that tells the long history of arthropods
A new Sinergia collaborative project was launched, with Allison Daley, specialist at ISTE of fossils and animal evolution in Cambrien, Marc Robinson-Rechavi and Robert Waterhouse (from the Department of Ecology and Evolution at UNIL) and Ariel Chipman (from…







