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CommunicationPublished on 11 September 2025

“Switzerland can leverage its profile – including for glacier preservation”

Climate change is accelerating glacier retreat in alpine and polar regions – with potentially devastating consequences for humans and the environment. Switzerland's polar and glacier research is world class, and contributes significantly to our understanding of global climate change while indirectly supporting climate protection. To find out more, we interviewed Professor Daniel Farinotti, a glaciologist at ETH Zurich.

A man holds a measuring rod on a glacier in the Swiss Alps.