Nothing stays the same: understanding change

Authors:

Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL

Series:

WSL Magazine Diagonal 2026/1

Publishing year:

2026

Amount:

36 Pages

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Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL (2026). Nothing stays the same: understanding change. WSL Magazine Diagonal, 2026/1 36 p.

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German, English, French

Focus: Change ¶

FORCES OF NATURE – Immovable, eternal – and constantly changing

Rising temperatures are causing mountains to crumble and permafrost to thaw, and upsetting the balance between plants and herbivores. On location in the Engadine.

INFOGRAPHIC - Metamorphosis

Understanding how a snow crystal metamorphoses is fundamental to snow research as this process changes the very properties of the snow.

SOCIAL SCIENCE – Changing minds

How does information reach the right audience – and trigger the desired response? Achieving that is often harder than you might think.

LANDSCAPE CHANGE – “The landscape reflects changing priorities.”

Swiss landscapes are becoming more and more uniform. WSL landscape historian Matthias Bürgi and Franziska Grossenbacher from the Swiss Foundation for Landscape Conservation explain this problem.