Thomas Crowther is a professor of Global Ecosystem Ecology at ETH Zurich, one of the world’s leading universities for Earth and Environmental sciences, where he is the head of the Crowther Lab and leads a multidisciplinary team of 25 researchers. In his lab, the team pairs satellite imagery with the world’s largest set of ground-sourced data containing more than 30 million measurements of individual trees and 120,000 measurements of soil communities. This creates a holistic view of forest ecosystems and their capacity to store carbon, which is necessary to understand and address climate change at a global scale.
Nature is our life support system, but it is under extraordinary pressure. Over the past century, increased human activity has largely come at the expense of nature. The resulting biodive...
As the debate on restoring forests to offset carbon continues in the media, hundreds of scientists across the globe, led by Crowther Lab at ETH Zurich, have joined forces to build an inte...
There are 300 additional gigatonnes of carbon in the atmosphere as a result of human activity since the start of the industrial revolution. As the climate warms, the activity of micro-org...
