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• 13.08.2025 Glaciology

  Falling Ice Drives Glacial Retreat in Greenland

  When an iceberg calves, huge chunks of ice break off at the end of the glacier. These trigger high waves on the surface and underwater, pushing warmer sea water upwards. This accelerates the melting of the ice masses.

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• 05.06.2025 Plant sciences

  Fungal Resistance in Wheat: Preserving Biodiversity for Food Security

  Wheat production is threatened by a major fungal disease: yellow rust. UZH researchers have found traditional wheat varieties from Asia that harbor several resistance-conferring genes.

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• 15.05.2025 Natural History Museum

  How Plants Communicate with Each Other

  A new exhibition on plant communication marks the inclusion of botany at the University of Zurich’s Natural History Museum.

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• 15.05.2025 Agroecology

  Dual Associations with Two Fungi Improve Tree Fitness

  Tree species that form symbioses with two different types of mycorrhizal fungi cope better with water and nutrient scarcity.

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• 15.05.2025 Climate Action

  More Sustainability, Less Moral Preaching

  If Switzerland and the EU want to become carbon-neutral by 2050, they need to overcome ideological rifts in business, politics and society.

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• 02.05.2025 Plant Physiology

  Natural Substitute for Pesticides

  Chemical pesticides are becoming less and less effective. UZH plant immunologists are exploring a promising alternative that originates in the plants’ own natural defenses.

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• 26.03.2025 Global species loss

  The Devastating Human Impact on Biodiversity

  Humans are having a highly detrimental impact on biodiversity worldwide. Not only is the number of species declining, but the composition of species communities is also changing. These are the findings of one of the largest studies ever conducted on this topic.

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• 21.03.2025 World Day for Glaciers

  Every Tenth of a Degree Helps

  In many regions, the “eternal ice” of the glaciers will not survive beyond the 21st century – with fatal consequences for millions of people, reports the UZH-based World Glacier Monitoring Service.

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• 19.02.2025 Glaciology

  Melting Glaciers Increase Loss of Freshwater Resources and Rise Global Sea Levels

  The melting ice from glaciers worldwide is leading to an increased loss of regional freshwater resources. Since the year 2000, glaciers have been losing 273 billion tons of ice annually.

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• 30.01.2025 Environment and climate

  Climate Change Increases Risk of Successive Natural Hazards in the Himalayas

  An international research team reconstructed the Sikkim flood disaster in the Himalayas in October 2023 that triggered a deadly and devastating 20-meter flood wave.

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• 28.01.2025 Sustainability

  Cafeteria Food and Carbon Footprints

  Decarb UZH is a strategic project that gives new momentum to achieving climate neutrality at UZH. The university is reviewing its current implementation strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as much as possible by 2030.

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