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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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Reaching the Earth’s mantle: a dive into the depths of its continents
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français The continental crust makes up 41% of the Earth’s surface. Because of its thickness, its deepest areas remain unknown, although they play a fundamental role in the…
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A shifting project of post-growth economics funded by an ERC Synergy in Spain and Switzerland
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français The European Research Council has awarded funding to an ambitious ERC Synergy research-action project on the management by North and South societies of economic, political and social…
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High pressure experiments: laboratory tour with Prof. Lukas Baumgartner
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français Lukas Baumgartner shares with us a typical day. Alongside him, we wander from one laboratory to another. On today’s schedule: measurement launches punctuated by intense team discussions.…
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Cascade hydrogeomorphic hazards and risks : complex processes under the survey of an Italian-Swiss collaboration
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français The Seminar Cascading hydrogeomorphic processes and compound hazards in mountain catchments under environmental change took place at the University of Padova from September 13 to 16, 2022. This event,…
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Climate: Past history deciphered for future projections
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français In collaboration with an international team, an Institute of Earth Sciences researcher reveals the complexity of temperature evolution over the past 12,000 years. To predict the future,…
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Science and Sailing to collect environmental data in understudied Ocean Regions
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français Le Swiss Polar Institute (SPI) and scientific experts from ETHZ, UNIBERN and UNIL will collaborate with the Oliver Heer Ocean Racing offshore sailing team to collect environmental…
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How cold was it, 20,000 years ago?
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français During the Last Glacial Maximum, about 20,000 years ago, it was cold. But how cold? Estimates of surface air temperature vary between 1.8 and 8°C colder than…
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Solution travel in porous media: from microscopic flow to macroscopic transport
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français An important study published in Nature Communications describes through modeling the physical influence of microstructures in porous media on the global transport of particles entrained by fluids. This fundamental…
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Twice as much water in the magmas of subduction zones: the secrets of the plutonic rocks of Kohistan (Pakistan) – and the Alps?
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français Scientists from MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have published a article in the journal Nature Geosciences, in which it is shown that deep-seated magmas located in subduction zones contain…
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From space, the Alps turn green surprisingly fast
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français “From white to green…” an article published in Science on June 3, 2022, shows that the productivity of vegetation above the tree line has increased in almost…
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Price of European Geosciences Union awarded to Mikhail Kanevski
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français The EGU Ian McHarg 2022 Medal was awarded to Mikhail Kanevski for his outstanding work in environmental data processing, integrating geostatistics, machine learning algorithms and other digital transformations. Mikhail Kanevski is…
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The paleoenvironment of Chengjang Biota: a sedimentological study leads to an unexpected result
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français The Chengjang Biota is a fossil assemblage of high importance, particularly with regard to its faunal richness and the quality of conservation of the species it contains. Romain Vaucher, a post-doctoral fellow…