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Snowiest start to winter in 55 years

This content was published on Nov 12, 2007 Tourism authorities in ski resorts are rubbing their hands, not only because of the low temperatures but also in expectation of a record season. The southeastern resort of Davos in eastern Switzerland, which lies at 1,560m, saw 62cm of snow fall within 24 hours, according to the national weather service MeteoSwiss on Sunday morning. St…

Forests seen as vital to quality of life

This content was published on Nov 8, 2007 Switzerland, a third of which is covered in forest, was one of 46 European countries at the three-day “Forests for quality of life” conference, held in the Polish capital, Warsaw. A final declaration on Wednesday stressed the importance of forests in maintaining and enhancing water quality and in mitigating natural hazards. Two resolutions called for…

Swiss dig up clues in dinosaur death mystery

This content was published on Oct 31, 2007 Scientists from Switzerland and the United States have been able to date the eruptions, which created the Deccan Traps lava beds, to within 300,000 years of the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, palaeontology’s most persistent puzzle. “Increasingly we see that vulcanism is largely responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs,” Thierry Adatte, a professor of…

Wood could be the fuel of the future

This content was published on Oct 29, 2007 They have turned their attention to a familiar ally and one of Switzerland’s few plentiful renewable resources – wood. When Hurricane Lothar wreaked havoc across western Europe on December 26, 1999, Switzerland was not spared. The damage caused by the storm’s ferocious winds on the country’s forests was so bad that it could be detected…

Leuenberger has high hopes from new parliament

This content was published on Oct 27, 2007 Leuenberger, a member of the centre-left Social Democratic Party, said that understanding for environment, transport and energy questions should increase after last Sunday’s general election. “The bloc of Social Democrats, Greens and Liberal Greens has become a little larger. And the [centre-right] Christian Democrats made many ecological promises in their election campaign,” he commented in…

New centre provides seeds of knowledge

This content was published on Oct 27, 2007 Mycorama in Cernier has been over ten years in the making, finally overcoming a series of political and financial hurdles that often seemed insurmountable to its initiators. Autumn is the mushroom-collecting season in Switzerland. At weekends large numbers of people forage through the woods, basket in hand, in search of an often elusive – and…

Birds of prey protection accord takes wing

This content was published on Oct 25, 2007 The meeting, the first of its kind, drew up the first steps towards an international agreement on protecting these migratory raptors – a move welcomed by Switzerland. The four-day International Conference on the Protection of Africa-Eurasian migratory raptors, with representation from 44 countries, ended at Loch Lomond on Thursday. Delegates discussed the best way to…

Energy firm has high hopes for wind farm

This content was published on Oct 24, 2007 If the SFr48 million ($41 million) project gets the go-ahead, the turbines could be in operation by October 2009, a spokesman for REnInvest said. With eight 78-metre high wind turbines, the Gotthard project would not only be the largest wind farm but also the highest in Switzerland, at 2,040-2,131 metres above sea level. Wind power…

Job cuts overshadow Novartis results

This content was published on Oct 18, 2007 The Basel-based company said it doubled its profit to $11.1 billion (SFr13.05 billion) in the first nine months of the year, but the result fell short of forecasts. The job cuts are expected to save the company $230 million annually. About 240 jobs will be axed in positions in headquarter functions at its US operation.…

Swiss urged to take action on climate change

This content was published on Oct 16, 2007 Pachauri was speaking at a meeting in Switzerland on Tuesday. The Geneva-based IPCC and former United States Vice President Al Gore were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their work on the environment last week. “Even though Switzerland is a small country, you have the technological resources, you have the financial resources and the human…

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