Risks remain as Switzerland weighs return to nuclear power
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Switzerland reconsiders nuclear power amid climate goals, but experts warn of hidden risks that show the complexities of clean energy today.
Why climate change and wars are reviving interest in nuclear energy
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Is the Fukushima effect over? Here’s why there is renewed interest around the atom and which nations want to build new nuclear power plants.
Switzerland is Europe’s most innovative country, EU study finds
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In the European Commission’s annual ranking, the Swiss score dropped slightly in 2025, but not enough to cost it top spot.
Planned solar park at Bern airport scaled back after talks
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The ground-mounted plant at Belpmoos Airport will be smaller than originally planned, the parties involved said on Tuesday.
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Climate change threatens tourism in Switzerland – and is partly caused by it. How can the industry become more sustainable?
New hope for cable cars and mountain huts threatened by permafrost collapse
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A novel scientific solution being developed in Switzerland aims to stabilise mountain infrastructure endangered by climate change.
Permafrost thawing: protecting endangered mountain infrastructure in the Swiss Alps
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Elizaveta Sharaborova, a Swiss-based researcher, explains how her solar-powered prototype can stabilise thawing permafrost threatening Alpine infrastructure.
Swiss researchers sequence genome of 1918 Spanish flu virus
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Researchers from the Universities of Basel and Zurich (UZH) have sequenced the genome of the Spanish flu virus, thanks to a sample taken from an 18-year-old Swiss boy who died in the city on the Limmat in 1918, when the pandemic spread around the world.
Environment director warns of increasing climate-related risks in Switzerland
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The director of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) has warned of increasing climate-related risks in Switzerland in an interview with SonntagsBlick on Sunday.
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The water temperature of the Rhine River could rise by up to 4.2° degrees Celsius by the end of the century due to the warming planet, scientists warn.
Climate misinformation is ‘muddying waters’ and delaying urgent action, experts warn
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The fossil fuel industry and right-wing populists are coordinating misinformation campaigns to obstruct efforts to tackle the climate crisis, according to a new review of climate misinformation.