Amy Macfarlane, post-graduate student at SLF, postponed her scheduled return and experienced by the skin of her teeth how “her” ice floe transformed…

The current situation of all natural hazards in Switzerland is shown on the newly revised federal portal www.natural-hazards.ch.

A new study, in which the late WSL Director also participated, estimates the sea-level rise caused by the melting of the Greenland ice.

Even during lockdown, WSL glaciologist Matthias Huss had to measure glaciers – without using cable cars. Read about this experience in the blog.

Niklaus Zimmermann is stepping down from the WSL Directorate after 15 eventful years, during which he has been instrumental in shaping the WSL.

The world's first national permafrost monitoring network has documented warming of permafrost in the Swiss Alps since the year 2000.