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The Agricultural and Environmental Sciences 2025 graduation ceremony at ETH Zurich was something special: More than thirteen years after the merger of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences and the Department of Environmental Sciences to form the newly founded Department of Environmental Systems Sciences (D-USYS), the graduates of Environmental Sciences and Agricultural Sciences celebrated their graduation together.

At the request of ETH President Joël Mesot, the ETH Board awarded the title of professor to Oliver Fuhrer and Thomas Hofstetter at its meeting on May 21 and 22, 2025. Congratulations!

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.

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.

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.