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Globally, banks have committed to net-zero emissions in their investment and lending activities by 2050, but the likelihood of them reaching pledged emission reductions is unclear. Without regulatory backing, effective implementation of voluntary climate pledges is prevented by banks' fear of suffering market disadvantages, shows a study of ETH Zurich.

Humans are having a highly detrimental impact on biodiversity worldwide. Not only are the numbers of species declining, but the composition of species communities is also changing. This is shown by a study by Eawag and the University of Zurich published in the scientific journal “Nature”. It is one of the largest studies ever conducted on this topic.

What do graduates need to bring to the workplace today? Around 80 alumni and alumnae of the Environmental Sciences and Agricultural Sciences degree programmes, along with employers of our graduates, partners from practice and guests, came to ETH Zurich last Friday to find out about the Sudiengangsinitiative². They enthusiastically took the opportunity to contribute their ideas, needs and wishes regarding the competencies of future graduates.  

After three years of dedicated work, Florian Trepp and his team have successfully catalogued and photographed approximately 2,000 objects in the Anatomical Collection of Domestic Animals at the Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, led by Susanne Ulbrich. The collection, which includes some antique specimens, is now available to the public in the virtual world of the nahima (Natural History Collections Management digitally) of the ETH Library database.

Stream networks are often mapped as fixed features, but they actually extend and retract as the landscape wets up and dries out. Researchers from University of California (UC) and ETH Zurich have been tracking how much stream networks stretch and shrink in response to rainfall and drought. Their study is the first attempt to estimate this dynamic behaviour at a large scale across the continental United States.