Biodiversity is severely threatened both in Switzerland and worldwide, and numerous organisms are facing massive declines – particularly in freshwater ecosystems. 

Just a few months after an unusually warm winter with minimal ice, the surface temperatures of the lakes are now near or above records.

A Columbia study provides a blueprint for the use of genomics to help combat climate change.

How energy-intensive economies can survive and thrive as the globe ramps up climate action.

Study‘s agar ‘frogs’ help to determine impact of water loss, temperature rise

Research led by The University of Texas at Austin is allowing for more accurate forecasts of the monsoon season further in advance.

A recent study from the University of Florida found that sea level rise—combined with the burrowing and grazing activities of Sesarma, a native marsh crab—are causing salt marshes across the U.S. South Atlantic Coast to rapidly fracture and reorganize.

In the Pfyn Forest (canton of Valais), WSL scientists have been irrigating a number of forest plots since 2003.

The COVID-19 crisis and subsequent lockdown measures have led to a dramatic reduction of harmful air pollutants across major cities in India, finds a new study from the University of Surrey.

No year since weather records began was as hot and dry as 2018.