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August 15, 2025Eawag together with the Department of Forests and Park Services (DoFPS) convened a Workshop on Evidence-Based Decision-Making for Nature Conservation in Bhutan. The workshop brought together representatives from Government agencies, research institutions, non-governmental organizations, and international partners with the aim of strengthening Bhutan’s science-policy interface for environmental governance.

August 7, 2025A new dataset on the water quality in Swiss river catchments is now available. CAMELS-CH-Chem incorporates up to 40 water quality parameters for 115 Swiss catchments between 1981 and 2020.

August 6, 2025Diseases caused by Legionella bacteria are on the rise, despite national and international efforts to contain them. A joint paper by an international panel of researchers in this field highlights the important steps that need to be taken in the coming years to combat the pathogen.

July 23, 2025Surprisingly little is known about the climate history of the greater Tibet-Himalaya region. However, this information is urgently needed to predict how climate change will alter the water cycle there. Information stored in the sediments of Tibet's Nam Co Lake should now allow new conclusions to be drawn. A video presents the project.

July 18, 2025At the beginning of the month, Eawag spin-off Ranas celebrated its anniversary. After five years, companies founded at Eawag are ‘released’ from their spin-off status and stand on their own two feet. During this time, Ranas has developed into a successful, independent company that supports clients in implementing campaigns aimed at behavioural change and prevention.

July 17, 2025Wastewater monitoring became well known during the coronavirus period from 2020, when Eawag and its partners began monitoring whether and which coronaviruses could be detected in wastewater throughout Switzerland. However, the researchers are now able to make far more statements about the health of the population because other pathogens and traces of medicines and drugs are also being monitored in parallel. The combination of data from both programmes opens up new perspectives.

July 15, 2025By the end of the century, water temperatures in Swiss rivers will rise by up to 3.5 degrees if no action to protect the climate is taken. The rivers in the Alps are particularly affected. This is the conclusion reached by researchers from Eawag and the University of Basel in a research project funded by the FOEN.

July 11, 2025The ETH Board appointed Daniel McCurry as a joint professor at EPFL and Eawag. The environmental engineer, who is currently still teaching in the USA, is already on sabbatical at Eawag. From summer 2026, alongside his teaching and research activities at EPFL, he will set up a research group that will also be active at Eawag.

July 10, 2025To curb global plastic pollution and to make plastics safer and more sustainable, countries are currently negotiating a global treaty. A new study with participation from Eawag and Empa published in Nature provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of all chemicals that can be present in plastics, their properties, uses, and hazards. Moreover, the study also provides a scientific approach for identifying chemicals of concern. This allows scientists and manufacturers to develop safer plastics and policy makers to promote a non-toxic circular economy.

July 3, 2025Two workshops on urban development and biodiversity with participants from research and politics show how cities can be designed to be biodiversity-friendly, inclusive and resilient.