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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.

Simona Meiler's snowboarding career ended at the 2018 Winter Olympics, but since then, she has shown the same drive in her commitment to science. Meiler has been awarded the Swiss Academy of Sciences’ Prix Schläfli in Geosciences for her research into tropical cyclones.

He had already been in contact with ETH Zurich during his time as a postdoc in the USA. Since their research areas were very similar, he regularly exchanged ideas with various professors at the Institute for Atmosphere and Climate (IAC). Since September last year, he has been a Professor of High-Resolution Weather and Climate Models at ETH Zurich.

About half of global mangrove ecosystems are at risk from changes in tropical cyclone activity and sea level rise. A study by Sarah Hülsen and colleagues from ETH Zürich, University of Colorado Boulder, and Stanford University, show mangroves providing the most ecosystem services are disproportionately affected.