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. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Thanks to Seneviratne, global climate models take factors such as soil moisture, vegetation and evaporation into account more clearly than before, it added. + Why Switzerland is among the fastest warming countries 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 ...
