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Pui Man Kam and colleagues at ETH Zurich have created a global, open-source system to forecast how many people will be displaced by tropical cyclones.

Climate change is intensifying natural hazards in many mountain areas, posing particular challenges for the Alpine region. These are the findings of a study coordinated by glaciologist Mylène Jacquemart and permafrost expert Samuel Weber from ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. 

Insects and spiders are crucial for food webs in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Their decline reduces the food supply for birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and small mammals, resulting in a scarcity of essential fatty acids

The chemical and pharmacognostic collection D-CHAB contains 17 fabric pattern books by the Swiss textile manufacturer and chemist Adolf Jenny-Trümpy.

Guided by D-BSSE researchers Niko Beerenwinkel and Tanja Stadler and other steering group members from the University of Basel, the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) opens a dedicated centre for computational pathogen research and surveillance.

With her concepts mathematician Svitlana Mayboroda has not only helped to save energy with new semiconductors. She also wants to find out what is behind complicated cosmic objects like the Orion Nebula.

Nicolas Gruber, Professor for Environmental Physics at the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Roger Revelle Medal by the American Geophysical Union.

Cities are critical to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. New research shows that European cities tend to prioritize environmental and technical issues while their residents prefer issues linked to everyday needs. This is reported by D-BAUG researchers in the journal “Nature Sustainability”.

As atmospheric CO2 levels continue their steady climb, the ocean persistently takes up a quarter of our CO2 emissions, curtailing the pace of climate change. But the ocean does not soak up carbon uniformly. Researchers from ETH Zurich and the University of Exeter, Great Britain, released a new product that uses satellites to map the ocean carbon sink at an unprecedented resolution, offering unique insights into its highly variable nature.