2025
Coastal guardians at risk: Cyclones and rising seas threaten mangroves
About half of global mangrove ecosystems are at risk from changes in tropical cyclone activity and sea level rise. A study by Sarah Hülsen and colleagues from ETH Zürich, University of Colorado Boulder, and Stanford University, show mangroves providing the most ecosystem services are disproportionately affected.
Updates from C2SM: Newsletter Vol. 40 - March 2025
What's going on at C2SM? Find out all about personnel changes, activities of the core team, latest projects from the community and more in the current C2SM newsletter!
“Switzerland’s glaciers could vanish completely by 2100”
Switzerland’s glaciers are in increasingly poor shape. If greenhouse gas emissions are not cut drastically soon, they could cease to exist by 2100 – so says ETH Professor Daniel Farinotti in this ETH News interview to mark the first World Day for Glaciers.
How climate extremes fuel droughts and heavy rains
Global warming causes extreme temperatures – this is clear to most, but few realize that both droughts and heavy rains are symptomatic of a climate in crisis. Sonia Seneviratne explains the far-reaching impacts of climate extremes.
Interpreting traces of arsenic in rain
On the Pic du Midi in the Pyrenees, ETH Zurich researchers have analysed particulate matter, clouds and rainwater for traces of arsenic. Using newly developed measurement methods, they have elucidated the transport pathways of the environmental toxin in the atmosphere.