Climate change, trust in science and health were among the most popular topics covered by UZH media releases and articles in 2025.
Climate change, trust in science and health were among the most popular topics covered by UZH media releases and articles in 2025. As in past years, our stories about research at UZH resonated all over the world.
Last year, the UZH media relations team published over 70 media releases and articles about the university’s research findings and institutional developments. As always, not all topics received the same level of attention from national and international media outlets. An internal ranking of the 10 most successful releases shows that, for the first time, UZH’s media releases on climate change topics attracted the greatest attention across the globe.
Alarming Glacial Melt
2025 was the International Year of Glaciers, and the UZH-based World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) put the issue firmly in the spotlight. Fittingly, two UZH media releases on glacier loss received the most attention. Headlines highlighting an increased loss of freshwater resources and ever-rising sea levels resonated far beyond Switzerland. In UZH’s most popular 2025 media release, WGMS director Michael Zemp calculated that glaciers worldwide have lost an average of 273 billion tons of ice annually for the past 25 years. This stark warning was picked up by almost 1,100 national and international media outlets, both online and in print.
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Image: The South Cascade Glacier in the US state of Washington is the first glacier of 2025. The glacier is one of five reference glaciers monitored by the US Geological Survey and has been observed since 1958. (Image Credit: US Geological Survey)
