Environmental Engineering Institute – IIE

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Our carbon footprint is highly impacted by how we live

Research

Swiss households have excessively large carbon footprints. However, that footprint depends more on socio-economic status than location – whether the household is in the countryside or the city – because people travel more in the country but consume more in cities.

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Rivers are warming at the same rate as the atmosphere

EPFL

Researchers at EPFL and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) have found that the temperature of Swiss rivers is rising steadily. This situation is straining ecosystems and could limit the use of this water in Switzerland’s nuclear and hydropower industries.

Associate professor Tamar Kohn and full professor Athanasios Nenes. © Alain Herzog / EPFL 2020

A research team aims to reduce influenza transmission

Research

In Lausanne and Zurich, experts in virology, medicine, environmental chemistry and atmospheric science will pool their expertise to better understand the airborne transmission of the influenza virus.

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