WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF

HOT!

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Swiss Federal Institute WSL

Series:
WSL Magazine Diagonal 23/2
Publishing year:
2023
Amount:
36 Pages
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Swiss Federal Institute WSL (2023) HOT! WSL Magazine Diagonal, 23/2: 36 p.

Available languages:
German, English, French

Focus

Heat in cities

To ensure people can still live in cities in the future, they must adapt them to climate change.

Infographic: The hottest place at WSL!

10’000 degrees – the hottest place at WSL: the atomic emission spectrometer.

Half has already gone

Researchers at WSL forecast how climate change will affect Swiss glaciers.

Sweating to death

WSL is exploring how heat harms trees and searching for species that cope well with high temperatures.

Artificial climate change

Researchers are investigating how alpine plants react to higher temperatures in a long-term field experiment. DIAGONAL went with them.

Inferno

What helps to provide protection against forest fires and how is WSL
contributing?

Key Topics

Forest

The Douglas firs in our forests are rarely
used by forest insects

Biodiversity

Where do the flatworms come from? | Clearing deadwood is not good for woodpeckers | Insect communities are changing

Landscape

Avoiding conflicts, preserving biodiversity and planning recreation | Finding a way to get to net zero

Natural hazards

Drought and its consequences: extension of the forecasting platform | Laser beams in the Illgraben

Snow and ice

Tough competition on the way into space | All just a lot of hot air

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