13 Beiträge in Kategorie: History

Gletscher sind hervorragende Klimaindikatoren. Historische Bilder zeigen frühere Gletscherschwankungen besonders eindrucksvoll. Nun wurden über 300 Bilddarstellungen in die klimahistorische Datenbank Euro-Climhist integriert.

This summer has again broken temperature and glacier melt records. And it has led to the release of the remains of unfortunate mountaineers, wreckage of airplanes, and other objects trapped in the ice for several decades. But what are the underlying glacial drivers besides climate change?

In early summer 1980, radical geography students rallied around the slogan „Geografe nüme schlafe!“ („Geographers, stop sleeping!“) to take part in the radical youth movement that shook the city of Zurich at that time. These activist students confronted the professorate with their demands for a new curriculum.