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Snow makes an appearance in Switzerland

This content was published on Oct 28, 2018 The end of summer time on the clocks was mirrored by the weather in Switzerland on Sunday as many places woke up to snow.

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Mushroom school tests the senses

This content was published on Oct 27, 2018 Autumn is mushroom season, and there’s a Swiss school devoted to finding and identifying the edible ones.

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Swiss stock exchange stays on sustainability initiative sidelines

This content was published on Oct 25, 2018 Switzerland's SIX Group is one of the few major global trading platforms not to be part of the UN Sustainable Stock Exchange initiative.

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A crowd favourite at the zoo

This content was published on Oct 18, 2018

Swiss glaciers surrender secrets of the past

This content was published on Oct 18, 2018 Neolithic wooden bows, quartz arrowheads and a prayer book: archaeological treasures and human remains are surfacing from retreating glaciers.

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Swiss glaciers shrink further after extreme 2018 weather

This content was published on Oct 17, 2018 Weather extremes over the past year, including one of the hottest summers on record, was devastating to the nation’s glaciers, a study has shown.

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Geneva joins climate protests in France

This content was published on Oct 13, 2018 Several thousand demonstrators in Geneva have called or a radical action against climate change.

View of Bondo following a landslide on 23 August 2017

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Insurers act on climate change exposure

This content was published on Oct 9, 2018 Insurance companies, like Zurich-based Swiss Re, are dealing with climate change impacts in the form of direct claims related to volatile weather.

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Next decade ‘will be decisive’ for climate crisis

This content was published on Oct 8, 2018 Keeping the Earth’s temperature rise to only 1.5 degrees Celsius is “in principle possible”, says a Swiss scientist, but time's running out.

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Hot Swiss summer increases danger of alpine rockfalls

This content was published on Oct 7, 2018 Earlier this week a huge rockslide was observed in the Val Ferret area, bordering Italy, in the French-speaking canton Valais. Cantons Uri and Graubünden have also seen above average rock displacement, which represents a threat to mountaineers and hikers. The record-breaking heat of the summer in Switzerland has been identified as the culprit, melting the…

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