Newsletter February 2024
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February 29, 2024
 
 
 
 Eawag Director Martin Ackermann and Empa Director Tanja Zimmermann (Photo: Marion Nitsch, Empa)
The CO2-binding society as a goal
Tanja Zimmermann and Martin Ackermann want to provide answers to the current climate crisis with new initiatives and ambitious goals. In this interview, Eawag Director Ackermann and Empa Director Zimmermann explain why this is primarily a water crisis, what is needed to tackle it and what can be produced from the greenhouse gas CO2.

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 Corbassière glacier at Grand Combin in the canton of Valais. (Photo: Adobe Stock)
Glacier melting destroys important climate data archive
PSI researchers analysed ice cores drilled from the Corbassière glacier at Grand Combin in the canton of Valais. A comparison of the two sets of ice cores shows: Global warming has made at least this glacier unusable as a climate archive.

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 Climate-damaging methane is released, for example, during the extraction of fossil fuels and in agriculture. (Image: Adobe Stock)
A milestone in weather and climate research
The renowned climate and weather model ICON has been available to all interested parties under an open source license since the beginning of February. This is intended to make science and the scientific services behind it more transparent. At the same time, further progress is made possible in an area from which society can particularly benefit in times of climate change.

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Mountains in Valais © Laurence Piaget-Dubuis
“Valais is an ideal laboratory to study climate change impacts”
Addressing global warming will require politics, industry and academia to develop new, innovative ways of working together, says Jérôme Chappellaz, environmental scientist and academic director of ALPOLE at EPFL. He regards the canton of Valais as an ideal laboratory to study impacts of and solutions to address our shrinking Alpine glaciers.

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 Stocking medical facilities like this one in Sudan is challenging for ICRC’s logistics department. (Photograph: Boris Hegger / ICRC)
ETH Zurich logistics tool saves ICRC millions
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) provides medical supplies to people in need. A planning tool developed by researchers at ETH Zurich will make this complex task more efficient in future and save the ICRC millions.

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 An image of a spiral galaxy, taken by the James Webb Telescope - a space system. (Photograph: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Janice Lee (STScI), Thomas Williams (Oxford), and the PHANGS team)
New Master’s in Space Systems to be launched in September
A new Master’s degree programme in Space Systems will be launched at ETH Zurich in autumn 2024. Interested parties can start applying in April.

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