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Recent news stories from research, education, and the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich.
Feeling tomorrow's heat: ETH researchers illustrate climate impacts at Venice Architecture Biennale
Sonia Seneviratne and David Bresch, professors at the Departement for Environmental Systems Sciences, have contributed to a thought-provoking installation just by the entrance at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025. Together with Lorenzo Pierini, a postdoctoral researcher, they calculated what the air temperature would be in the future if we didn't have climate change mitigation.
Climate change: Children suffer the most
Millions of today's children will be affected in unprecedented ways by heat waves, crop failures, river flooding, droughts, forest fires and tropical storms during their lifetime under current climate policy measures. This is shown by research conducted by climate researchers at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in collaboration with ETH Zurich.
The world’s wealthiest 10% caused two thirds of global warming since 1990
Wealthy individuals have a higher carbon footprint. A study published in Nature Climate Change quantifies the climate outcomes of these inequalities. It finds that the world’s wealthiest 10% are responsible for two thirds of observed global warming since 1990 and the resulting increases in climate extremes such as heatwaves and droughts.