ClimatiZENs: Past climates for future citizens

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The AGORA project “ClimatiZENs” has been funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and will be implemented with colleagues from the Department of Earth Sciences and the AniMuse team as of September 1, 2020. While understanding planet earth and its climate is at the heart of any climate action (UN Sustainable Development Goal SDG-13), we […]

Warming increases risk of snow avalanches in the western Himalayas

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Often called the Third Pole, the Hindukush-Karakoram-Himalaya region, comprising the Tibetan plateau and the surrounding mountains, is the most glaciated place on Earth outside the North and South Poles. Its cryosphere is extremely susceptible—and the surrounding communities and ecosystems vulnerable—to the effects of climate change. Juan Ballesteros-Cánovas and colleagues at the University of Geneva have […]