Ancient carbon is leaking from two lakes in the Congo Basin, revealing a previously unknown link between tropical peatlands and the atmosphere.
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Saviez-vous que des cyclones tropicaux peuvent se produire en Méditerranée ?
A gas crisis could challenge Europe next winter if its gas reserves are not replenished. The phaseout of Russian gas and LNG by late 2027 is a major part of the EU’s gas diversification strategy but it exposes the continent to price volatility.
L'Afrique n'a pas besoin d'une avancée technologique pour accélérer l'adoption des véhicules électriques. Elle a besoin d'un cadre politique favorable.
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Several years worth of findings from a floating laboratory have tapped into a well-stocked coral library of taxonomic, genetic and chemical diversity, previously unknown to Science and Medicine.
Comme des ingénieurs chimistes, ces microbes synthétisent des molécules suivant des recettes que nous commençons tout juste à découvrir dans leurs ADN.
One of Latin America’s smallest nations has a robust network of housing cooperatives, which give access to permanent, affordable housing to citizens at a range of income levels.
Setting up the world’s biggest giant tropical forest reserve in the Congo Basin is a step towards conserving the area and creating jobs for local communities.
Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.
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The new global plastics treaty needs to tackle inequalities that surround how plastics are produced, handled, collected or not, and the level of care taken to deal with them.
Como detentor da presidência do G20, o Brasil tem uma oportunidade de assumir um papel de liderança na construção de resiliência e na mitigação de riscos no comércio global
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich
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Scientist, ETH Zurich
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Senior Researcher, ETH Zurich
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Senior Researcher, Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, ETH Zurich
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PhD Student, ETH Zurich
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Senior researcher in atmosphere and climate sciences, ETH Zurich
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Head of Global Security, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich; University of Sydney
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Doctoral Researcher (D-MTEC), ETH Zurich
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Senior Lecturer of Social Anthropology, ETH Zurich
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Professor of Sustainable Agrosystems, ETH Zurich
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Research Technician, ETH Zurich
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Senior Scientist, Neural Control of Movement Laboratory, ETH Zurich
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Associate Professor at the Department of Biology, ETH Zurich
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Postdoctoral Researcher, ETH Zurich
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Swiss Institute for Advanced Study, ETH Zurich