European forests with a greater diversity of tree species are more resilient to storms, according to new research published in Functional Ecology.
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Achieving Sustainable Urban Growth on a Global Scale
From the impacts on the environment and climate to transforming land cover and habitats, urban growth is driving global change.
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Glacier Melting Destroys Important Climate Data Archive
As part of the Ice Memory initiative, PSI researchers, with colleagues from the University of Fribourg and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice as well as the Institute of Polar Sciences of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), analysed ice cores drilled in 2018 and 2020 from the Corbassière glacier at Grand Combin in the canton of Valais.