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Execution drugs face export restrictions

This content was published on Sep 10, 2013 On Monday, the Senate approved the proposal without much of a discussion, following the recommendation of its health commission. The cabinet will now work out a bill and most likely add a clause to the law on therapeutic products. Interior Minister Alain Berset said there was currently no legal basis to ban the export of…

Threat management system premieres in Solothurn

This content was published on Sep 9, 2013 Serious acts of violence are usually preceded by warning signals communicated by the potential perpetrators. “It never happens out of the blue,” said Hans Rudolf von Rohr, head of security for the Solothurner cantonal police, speaking at the symposium in Olten. The mass shooting in the Zug cantonal parliament in 2001 and the state of…

Climate change to have big impact on Rhône Valley

This content was published on Sep 4, 2013 Temperatures in the Rhône Valley are expected to rise by 0.9 degrees Celsius by 2050, resulting in much hotter springs and summers and wetter winters, researchers from the European Union-funded ACQWA project, led by the University of Geneva, revealed on Wednesday. There will be less snow in the Alps each year and this will melt…

St Gallen geothermal project to continue

This content was published on Aug 27, 2013 Fredy Brunner, the member of the city council responsible for technical operations, announced the decision on Tuesday, having informed Swiss Energy Minister Doris Leuthard the previous day. The decision was taken after consultations with various experts, he said. The borehole has been stabilised and pipes have again been inserted to a depth of 4,000 metres.…

Syngenta challenges EU suspension of pesticide

This content was published on Aug 27, 2013 The Basel-based company said in the challenge filed on Tuesday that the decision to suspend thiamethoxam was based on a “flawed process” and had been made without the full support of EU member states. In a press release on the company’s website, Syngenta’s chief operating officer, John Atkin, said the company “would prefer not to…

A new way to protect sheep

This content was published on Aug 26, 2013 Llamas are being tested as part of a pilot project in 12 alpine areas. Swiss TV visited one of the llama guards at Col des Mosses in the canton of Vaud. (RTS/swissinfo.ch)

Millions of Chinese may face arsenic poisoning

This content was published on Aug 22, 2013 The scientists from Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology Eawag and the China Medical University in Shenyang estimate that naturally occurring arsenic concentrations above World Health Organisation threshold are found over 580,000 square kilometres, mainly in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Henan, Shandong and Jiangsu provinces. China in 2004 estimated that 14 million people were…

Estimated population at risk

This content was published on Aug 22, 2013

Arsenic contamination in China

This content was published on Aug 22, 2013

Switzerland among the ‘hardliners’

This content was published on Aug 22, 2013 Of 15 countries in western Europe, 12 permit PGD; some – including Britain and France – have done so for about 20 years.

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