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Cold!

Publishing year
2018
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, 2018: Cold!. WSL magazine Diagonal, 2018, 1: 1–36.

 

Focus

Cool research

In SLF’s cold laboratory, researchers experiment with snow from all over the world. This sometimes tests the ability not only of

their instruments...

Cold research on “hot” material

Snow is a strange substance. From a physical point of view it is not at all cold – it is hot. Its changeability keeps not only snow physicists and...

One-Two

WSL’s director Konrad Steffen and the ambassador Stefan Flückiger discuss climate refugees, the Arctic Council, and the race for raw materials.

How plants adapted to cold react to climate change

Mountain and tundra plants are particularly severely affected by climate warming. Researchers

at WSL are studying how the vegetation is changing.

‘Switzerland’s Siberia’ stays cold despite climate change

Ice-cold nights occur in La Brévine just as frequently today as they used to – despite climate change.

 

FOCUS

OUR LANDSCAPE CONCERNS US ALL

Whatever we do, we change the landscape. Our landscape researchers take a closer look so that we can shape these transformations together.

LANDSCAPE RESEARCH GOES TO SCHOOL

Young researchers from all over the world learned about data, tools and models for analyzing patterns and processes in landscapes.

ONE-TWO

Martin Laupper, Mayor of Glarus North: “Reforming the structure of the municipality is challenge, particularly as we have to find a new identity.”

LANDSCAPE UNDER CONSTANT OBSERVATION

The program “Landscape Monitoring Switzerland”, LABES, is an innovative tool for assessing and improving the quality of the landscape in Switzerland. ...

Protecting the climate through peatland conservation

Most of the raised bogs in Switzerland have been drained. This has led not only to the loss of a unique habitat, but also to another problem: former...