Environment
Digital sobriety is now a top priority at EPFL
Teaching
EPFL
An independent report commissioned by EPFL’s upper management recommends drastic measures and more comprehensive carbon accounting in order to reduce the substantial environmental impact caused by the use of digital technology at the School.
Emissions of banned ozone-depleting substance back on decline
Politics
Empa
After a mysterious and sharp increase between 2012 and 2017 that could be traced to eastern China global emissions of a potent (and banned) substance notorious for depleting the Earth’s ozone layer – the protective barrier that absorbs the Sun’s harmful UV rays – have fallen rapidly in recent years and are now as low as never before since measurements began in this region in 2008, according to new atmospheric analyses published in "Nature" today.
Geospatial data helps to better understand Parkinson's disease
Research
EPFL
In a new paper, a team of EPFL spatial-analysis experts and neurologists from Geneva University Hospital (HUG) show that the probability of developing Parkinson's disease is higher in the canton of Geneva's urban centers than in its rural areas. This constitutes an important contribution to the study of the causes of this neurodegenerative disease, which are still poorly understood.
Extreme weather from the stratosphere
Research
ETH Zurich
ETH climate researcher Daniela Domeisen has documented how the stratosphere influences extreme weather events. What surprised her was the sheer range of potential impacts. She explains what this means for climate research and long-term weather forecasts.
Swiss forests are unusual in Europe
Research
WSL
Swiss forests have some special characteristics compared with their European counterparts, including a large growing stock, the highest proportion of protective forest, but also high levels of air pollutant deposition. How forests here differ from those of neighbouring countries can be found in the new State of Europe's Forests 2020 report.
How climate change is disrupting ecosystems
Research
ETH Zurich WSL
When it gets warmer, organisms rise higher from the lowlands. Researchers from ETH and WSL investigated what could happen to plant communities on alpine grasslands if grasshoppers from lower elevations settled there.
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