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Sociology professor Christian Schmid will retire this year. In the interview, he looks back on his time at the ETH Studio Basel, which sparked discussions with the book and whose publications will be freely available online as Open Access from May.

Climate change leads to more landslides and flooding. ETH professor Martina Voser is investigating how landscape architecture can respond to this in the sandbox, on the computer and in dialogue with the population.

The City of Zurich intends to take over ETH’s district heating system in the Zentrum area. With the sale, ETH is strengthening its focus and is drawing a line under a situation that has developed over time.

Pioneering study reveals that limiting global warming to 1.5ºC could reduce the global economic costs of climate change by two thirds. If warming continues to 3ºC, global GDP will decrease by up to 10 percent - with the worst impacts in less developed countries.

Greenhouse gas emissions have led to substantial warming. However, the observed warming in Europe is stronger than typically projected in regional climate models. A new study shows that this is due to insufficient consideration of changes in aerosols in the models and implies higher warming than expected for the future.