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Researchers find 135 pesticides in Swiss rivers

Researchers find 135 pesticides in Swiss streams and rivers

This content was published on Oct 2, 2025 Researchers detect 135 pesticides in Swiss rivers, some exceeding safety limits.

What is your country doing to protect you from the impacts of climate change?

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Switzerland violated its citizens’ fundamental rights by not taking enough climate action. Do you think your right to a healthy environment is being respected?

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Is AI for sign language promising or futile?

This content was published on Oct 2, 2025 Labs and start-ups in Switzerland are working on using AI to advance sign language interpretation, but they face many challenges.

Swiss space research projects will get a funding boost

Swiss space research to get CHF6 million boost

This content was published on Oct 1, 2025 Switzerland to support research and innovation space projects with CHF6 million.

Scientist Florian Krauss with ice core sample

Frozen clues: how Antarctic ice reveals our climate past

This content was published on Oct 1, 2025 Researchers in Bern study 1.2-million-year-old Antarctic ice. Discover how ancient air bubbles reveal the secrets of Earth’s climate history.

Scepticism and fear of AI are particularly strong among older people.

How AI influenced Switzerland’s vote on e-ID

This content was published on Oct 1, 2025 Distrust in AI and fear of data abuse by private companies are among the main concerns of Swiss voters.

Why melting glaciers affect us all

Alpine glaciers could disappear by the end of the century. The consequences will be felt not only in the Swiss Alps but all over the planet.

The ice sample extracted at a depth of 2,492 metres in Antarctica is ready for analysis.

Swiss science seeks answers to climate change in Antarctic ice

This content was published on Oct 1, 2025 Researchers in Bern are studying some of the oldest ice samples on the planet. They want to shed light on one of the main mysteries of the Earth’s climate.

The Clariden Glacier in the Swiss Central Alps in September 2025.

Alpine glaciers are melting even on the highest peaks

This content was published on Oct 1, 2025 Swiss glaciers have lost a quarter of their volume in ten years. Climate change is accelerating their melting even at higher altitudes.

Two initiatives on wind turbine construction launched in Switzerland

This content was published on Sep 30, 2025 Two initiatives related to wind turbine construction have received the required number of signatures to be put to voters.

Two Swiss among the favourites for the Nobel Prizes

Two Swiss among favourites for Nobel Prizes

This content was published on Sep 29, 2025 Swiss researchers Andrea Ablasser and Daniel Loss emerge as Nobel Prize favorites.

Switzerland makes progress on environmental footprint but gaps remain

This content was published on Sep 29, 2025 Switzerland improves air and resource management, but key environmental challenges persist.

Zurich voters don't want net zero until 2050

Zurich voters set net-zero carbon deadline for 2050

This content was published on Sep 28, 2025 Voters set canton Zurich 2050 carbon neutral deadline.

‘Our AI applications will transform the role of engineers’

This content was published on Sep 27, 2025 Pierre Baqué, CEO of Swiss start-up Neural Concept, is a leader in AI solutions for Formula 1.

The Federal Council wants to tax electric vehicles more heavily

Switzerland plans extra taxes on electric vehicles

This content was published on Sep 26, 2025 The Swiss government wants to tax electric vehicles more heavily from 2030.

Bernese researchers discover eight new frog species in Borneo

Swiss researchers discover eight new frog species in Borneo

This content was published on Sep 25, 2025 Scientists from the Swiss capital Bern, together with an international research team, have discovered eight new species of so-called “guardian frogs” on the island of Borneo.

Madrisa Solar is the first alpine solar power plant to produce electricity

Madrisa first Swiss alpine solar plant to produce electricity

This content was published on Sep 24, 2025 Madrisa Solar first Alpine solar power plant to feed electricity into Swiss grid.

Switzerland halts work on the sectoral plan for Cargo Sous Terrain for the time being

Switzerland halts work on futuristic underground freight transport facility

This content was published on Sep 22, 2025 The federal government, the local cantons and the city of Zurich are suspending further work on the Cargo Sous Terrain project for an underground freight transport facility.

Campaign with rewards for giving up cars has started in Basel-Stadt

Swiss canton offers a reward to residents who give up their cars

This content was published on Sep 22, 2025 From Monday, anyone who gives up their car can apply for a reward from the canton of Basel-City.

Holcim also manufactures in Switzerland – here is the factory in Siggental, Canton of Aargau.

Green promises: the two faces of the Swiss cement giant Holcim

This content was published on Sep 22, 2025 On the very day Holcim is fighting against a climate lawsuit in a court in Zug, the Swiss cement company is promoting its Net Zero plans at a congress just a few kilometres down the road.