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Wealth threatens the simple life in Gstaad

This content was published on Feb 6, 2014 “I’m in heaven! Lucky Me,” posted Madonna at the beginning of the year during her vacation in Gstaad. The pop icon is just one of many celebrities who feel comfortable in the famous winter resort. Not only Madonna, but French singer Johnny Hallyday and his friend, film director Roman Polanski, have bought chalets in Gstaad…

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Warm winters change migration patterns

This content was published on Jan 31, 2014 Michael Schaad of the Swiss Ornithological Institute, which organised the census in January, told the Swiss News Agency that there had been an overall shift north, because of the unusually warm winter. He explained that birds move south when food becomes scarce. The cold itself does not bother them. Usually about 500,000 aquatic birds from…

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Solar power output almost doubled in 2013

This content was published on Jan 13, 2014 Across the country, the solar power output increased to 730 megawatts, equalling 1% of power needed nationally, or the yearly amount required for around 200,000 households. However, growth in the installation of new solar panels is tapering off, with 2013 seeing just a 30% increase in installations over the previous year versus a 60% increase in 2012.…

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Leaving new year’s traces in the snow

This content was published on Jan 4, 2014 “The snow, exploded water, sand of ice, salt not of the earth, but of the sky, salt not salty, the taste of flint with the texture of crushed rock, perfumed with cold, white in colour, the only colour that falls from the clouds,” writes Amélie Nothomb in Le Sabotage amoureux (The Sabotage loves). And it’s…

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‘No regrets’ as environmental activist arrives home

This content was published on Dec 31, 2013 Weber was one of the “Arctic 30” environmental campaigners imprisoned along with two journalists. Initially accused of piracy, the charges were later downgraded to hooliganism and then dropped altogether in mid-December. He spoke to the press in Zurich on Tuesday morning after a 50-hour train journey home, saying he didn’t want to travel by aeroplane.…

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Glaciers uncover ‘lost’ objects

This content was published on Dec 7, 2013 Poffet has not always found it easy to cart away his finds, and is sometimes forced to break them up to fit them in his backpack. But over the years he has built up an impressive collection. As a photographer, he is as interested in the objects as he is in their past and how…

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Mühleberg ordered to maintain safety levels

This content was published on Nov 21, 2013 The Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI) said on Thursday that Swiss energy company BKW would still have to invest in safety, such as measures to stabilise the core reactor wall and an earthquake- and flood-resistant system of cooling combustible fuel elements, “until the plant’s final day”. On October 30, BKW said it would take Mühleberg…

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Fog enshrouds moonlit Chur

This content was published on Nov 18, 2013

Used paper is big business

This content was published on Nov 8, 2013 The lucrative business of used paper – discarded newspapers, cardboard, and the like – can even end up being discussed before courts of law. In August, the administrative court in the capital Bern had to decide who would get their hands on the approximately 14,000 tons of neatly bound stacks of paper that residents leave…

Mühleberg plant to close in 2019

This content was published on Oct 30, 2013 BKW took the decision on Wednesday, in what is the latest in many twists and turns in the history of Mühleberg – one of Switzerland’s five nuclear power plants. Built in 1972, Mühleberg is frequently cited by opponents of nuclear energy as ready for closure. The energy company said it had looked in recent months…

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