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A new study shows that Solar Radiation Modification via Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) of solid particles could reduce some of the critical adverse effects resulting from the conventionally researched injection of gaseous SO₂. For example, solid particles could reduce the impact on the North Atlantic Oscillation via reduced stratospheric heating. 

Daria Odermatt and Helena Ström are the winners of this year's Swiss Forum for International Agricultural Research (SFIAR) award. Both Odermatt's and Ström's research offers promising pathways to healthier plants and increased yields for smallholder farmers in Africa.  

Barbora Trubenová’s interest in drug resistance is driven by her fascination with evolutionary processes and the critical need to understand how organisms adapt to survive. As an newly appointed Assistant Professor of Pathogen Evolution at D-USYS and Eawag, she investigates how bacteria, fungi and parasitic worms develop resistance to drugs.

For his excellent teaching, Achim Walter has been awarded the Golden Owl by ETH Zurich’s students association VSETH.  

The oceans were less cold in the early 20th century (1900–1930) than previously thought. During this period the ocean appears too cold due to the way some measurements were taken. However, the new findings do not affect the quantification of the global warming relative to 1850-1900 and the human contribution to that warming, stress climate researchers around Sebastian Sippel (Leipzig University) and Reto Knutti from ETH Zurich.