News
Learn more about the latest developments in our group and publications.
Uncertainties about future climate and socioeconomic conditions challenge the design and implementation of adaptation measures. Deterministic methods, although helpful in…
Read moreAnthropogenic climate change is already causing dangerous and widespread disruptions in global ecological and social systems and affects the lives…
Read moreWater management in mountainous regions faces significant challenges due to deep uncertainties arising from data scarcity, knowledge gaps, and the…
Read moreRisks to society that are triggered by a combination of extreme meteorological events and amplified by process cascades are difficult…
Read moreThe mountains of Central Asia support many environmental functions and ecosystem services. The mountain environments and their services are affected…
Read moreAdvances in research on current and projected heat-related risks from climate change and the associated responses have rapidly developed over…
Read moreThis paper presents Climinator, a novel AI-based tool designed to automate the fact-checking of climate change claims. Utilizing an array…
Read moreLarge Language Models have made remarkable progress in question-answering tasks, but challenges like hallucination and outdated information persist. These issues…
Read moreGlacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs) initiate with the rapid outburst of a glacier lake, endangering downstream populations, land, and infrastructure.…
Read moreOur team member Manu Tom published a paper about ice trends using Machine Learning! Depleting lake ice is a climate…
Read moreAshim Sattar has been awarded with the prestigious Swiss Government Excellence award 2020-21 to pursue his postdoctoral research at University…
Read moreWe are excited to announce that together with our long-standing partners CARE Perú and COSUDE (Swiss Agency for Development and…
Read moreOur team member, Alina Motschmann, just published a paper from her PhD project in Geoenvironmental Disasters: "Towards integrated assessments of…
Read moreIn a recent study published in Climatic Change, Alina Motschmann, Christian Huggel, Randy Muñoz, and co-authors quantified loss and damage…
Read moreWe are pleased to announce that Graham McDowell has been awarded a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with us at…
Read more