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Revolutionizing climate tech 🌍✨
Climeworks, an ETH Zurich spin-off, is turning CO2 into stone with its Mammoth plant in Iceland. A huge step in carbon capture. Don’t miss this BBC Click deep dive into the future of CO2 removal.
Watch now: brnw.ch/21wQFha
🌍 Droughts & floods - two sides of the same crisis.
Global warming fuels both extreme dryness and heavy rainfall. Why is this happening and what can we do about it? @SISeneviratne explains the far-reaching impacts of climate extremes: go.ethz.ch/1n
Julukandoda Primary School in South Africa, with 768 students, faced major sanitation issues. 🚸 A research collaboration led to eco-friendly low-flush toilets and a decentralized wastewater treatment system. 🌱
worldfoodsystem.ethz.ch/news…
🌱Vor sieben Jahren kauften Fridolin Stocker, Luca Costa und Yanik Costa eine verlassene Farm im Norden von Sambia. Heute ist die ehemalige Brache eine nachhaltige Kaffeefarm. 🎧 🎙️👉 Podcast mit Luca Costa und Fridolin Stocker von Mount Sunzu Coffee: kaffeemacher.ch/blog/mount-s…
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Choreographers from the Ballet Zurich, alongside ETH Zurich climate scientists, discuss how dance reflects our world's interconnectedness and the challenges of climate change.
10 February, 17.00 - 18.00 Rämistrasse 101, Zurich, HG F30 Audimax
ethz.ch/en/the-eth-zurich/gl…
🌿What if we could produce cellulose without cutting down a single tree? Meet @treeless, an ETH Zürich spin-off harnessing bacteria and organic waste to create biodegradable and recyclable nanocellulose. 💡🌱
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🌪️🌍🌿 Tropical storms will challenge up to 9.4% of Earth’s terrestrial ecosystems, say researchers led by Chahan M. Kropf from @ETH_en. 👉usys.ethz.ch/en/news-events/… @KropfChahan
ALT Coastal ecosystem. Photo: Chor Tsang on Unsplash
🔬🌱Die Verluste von Lachgas (N2O) sind höher, je geringer das Pflanzenwachstum und die N-Aufnahme sind – unabhängig von der Bodenfeuchtigkeit. Was heisst das für die Praxis? Artikel von @NinaBuchmann1 in @diegruene_agrar:
diegruene.ch/artikel/vermisc… #SwissFluxNet
A new study from @ETH_en shows flight costs could rise by 50% if synthetic fuels replace kerosene by 2050.
Scaling production globally will need vast renewable energy, particularly outside Europe. ✈️
go.ethz.ch/1l
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En route to pangenome-wide association testing - in our preprint we introduce a method to conduct association tests for binary traits directly from a pangenome graph:
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ETH researchers found traces of #Arsenic in atmospheric particulate matter, clouds, and rainwater in the Pyrenees, revealing that living #Organisms significantly influence distribution more than previously thought. brnw.ch/21wPSNs
🌄🌾Der Anbau von Getreide gewinnt im #Alpsteingebiet wieder an Bedeutung. Erste Versuche der @ETH Zürich zeigen, welche Weizensorten den extremen Bedingungen standhalten. Artikel von Corina Oppliger in@diegruene_agrar: diegruene.ch/artikel/vermisc…
Stratospheric injection of solid particles could reduce climate change impacts, say researchers around @fabrice2000s and @SandroVattioni from @ETH_en .
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ALT CC: Shallow Focus Photo of World Globe
What do you really want to achieve in 2025? For yourself, your group, your department, the university and beyond? We look forward to another year together with you all!
🌟🙌Happy to announce that @JamesWKirchner has been appointed as the 30th holder of the King Carl XVI Gustaf Professorship in #EnvironmentalSciences by His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden 🇸🇪.
ethz.ch/staffnet/en/news-and… @WSL_research
We are excited for the year ahead and remain committed to driving further innovation in Environmental and Agricultural Sciences! 🌍
2024 saw ETH Zurich once again confirm its position as a global leader in research and teaching – be it in the field of biology, energy sciences or space research. brnw.ch/21wPwLX
🌎🇨🇭 Der Klimawandel verändert in der Schweiz auch den Umgang mit dem Wasser, meint @ManuelaIBrunner im Interview.
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Der Klimawandel und das Energiesystem der Zukunft 🌍
Drei Doktorierende der @ETH erforschen, wie Energiesysteme trotz #Klimawandel resilient bleiben können - eine besondere Herausforderung: die Prognose extremer Wetterereignisse.
👉🏻 Zum Artikel: go.ethz.ch/1i