ETH climate researcher honoured with the German Environmental Award
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Swiss climate researcher Sonia Isabelle Seneviratne from ETH Zurich receives the German Environmental Award 2025. She shares the prize, endowed with 500,000 euros, with the management duo of the steel galvanising company Zinq.
The ETH professor has used new research methods and pioneering studies on land-climate dynamics to highlight the interactions between soil moisture, vegetation, evaporation and the atmosphere in international discourse, the German Federal Environmental Foundation announced on Friday.
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Thanks to Seneviratne, global climate models take factors such as soil moisture, vegetation and evaporation into account more clearly than before, it added.
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According to the “brilliant climate scientist”, the ecosystem function of terrestrial vegetation as a reservoir for climate-damaging greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide is at risk due to increased drought as a result of climate change.
The German Environmental Award will be presented on 26 October in Chemnitz.
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