Events 03.04.2025
Investigating the unthinkable
Investigating the unthinkable

How can we prepare for something unprecedented? WSL has investigated the effects of extreme events and how to deal with them.

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Research 21.03.2025
Swiss glaciers could vanish completely by 2100
Swiss glaciers could vanish completely by 2100

Swiss glaciers are in increasingly poor shape. Interview with the glacier researcher Daniel Farinotti on the first World Glacier Day.

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Research 18.03.2025
Forest Report 2025: Swiss forests under pressure
Forest Report 2025: Swiss forests under pressure

Climate change is visibly affecting the forest, as shown by the 2025 Forest Report published by the FOEN and WSL.

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Research 04.03.2025
Gone-wild grapevines act as reservoirs for disease
Gone-wild grapevines act as reservoirs for disease

Flavescence dorée, a grapevine disease, is spreading across Switzerland. Gone-wild grapevines contribute to its spread.

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Research for people and the environment in a changing world

News

Institutional
20.03.2025

A new WSL strategy, SNSF funding for two major projects, and a new director: WSL's highlights of 2024.

Research
07.03.2025

Snow-free slopes at 1,900 m.a.s.l.: SLF biologist Christian Rixen explains the consequences for plants and why late frost becomes a risk.

Institutional
11.02.2025

WSL has made a video to mark the United Nations International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2025.

Institutional
28.01.2025

WSL adapts its organigram: the research activities will now be organized into only nine research units instead of the previous twelve.

Institutional
16.01.2025

A WSL researcher was awarded CHF 1.5 million from the SNSF to study how digitalisation is changing spatial planning.

Research
09.01.2025

An international team of scientists challenge long-held assumption that roots stop growing in winter.

Events

4 April 2025

As a drought-sensitive species, European beech is thought to be particularly vulnerable to climate change (Leuschner, 2020) and increasing…

10 to 11 April 2025

Flechten begegnet man auf Schritt und Tritt - vom Vorgarten bis auf die höchsten Berggipfel. Sie sind gute Indikatoren, beispielsweise zur…

7 May 2025

Ein zentrales Anliegen der Holzbranche ist die entschiedene Mehrnutzung von Schweizer Holz. Strategisches Ziel ist mittelfristig ein Plus…