Research 29.11.2023
Climate change and… biodiversity
Climate change and… biodiversity

Climate change affects avalanches, permafrost, winter sports and more. In this series, the SLF gives updates on its research.

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Research 02.11.2023
Spending the night on a glacier
Spending the night on a glacier

SLF researchers are studying the links between climate change, microclimate and glacier retreat in order to predict local impacts.

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Research 23.10.2023
"The snow was gone from the depot in January"
"The snow was gone from the depot in January"

Interview with sports engineer Fabian Wolfsperger about the impact of warm winters on snow farming and the upcoming winter sports season.

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Snowfarming bei Davos (Photo: Fabian Wolfsperger / SLF)
 
Research 14.09.2023
Packing for Christmas
Packing for Christmas

SLF technician Matthias Jaggi will spend the festive season in Antarctica. The luggage for his long expedition is travelling ahead of him.

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Research
28.11.2023

Climate change affects forests, avalanches, glaciers, permafrost and more. In this series, WSL and the SLF give updates on their research.

Logbook
23.11.2023

SLF biologist Christian Rixen writes about his expedition to Greenland in the footsteps of historical botanists - and climate change.

Services and products
13.11.2023

Find out where at WSL it is 10,000 degrees hot, everything about forest fires, what heat means for ecosystems in the new DIAGONAL magazine.

Events
01.11.2023

Inaugural lecture by Manuela Brunner, Head of the Hydrology and Climate Impacts in Mountain Regions Group at SLF, 8.11.2023, ETH Zurich

Blog
25.10.2023

Manuela Brunner, head of the group Hydrology and Climate Impacts in Mountain Regions, on consequences of climate change for Switzerland’s water.

Blog
03.10.2023

WSL microbiologist Beat Frey travelled to East Greenland to collect plastic waste. You can read about why in the new WSL logbook.