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Bottled message returns home after 30 years

This content was published on Jan 4, 2012 It included a fervent request that the finder should return it to the sender – and that’s just what she did after picking it up on a beach near Cape Town. Werner Kühnis told the Swiss News Agency that he had been astonished to receive a letter from South Africa, since he knew no one…

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Wintergäste * ORIGINAL *

This content was published on Jan 4, 2012 Jedes Jahr verbringen mehrere Hunderttausend Wasservögel den Winter in der Schweiz. Seit sechzig Jahren werden sie alljährlich von Freiwilligen gezählt. Nun präsentiert die Schweizer Vogelwarte die Ergebnisse, welche die Bedeutung der Schweiz als Winterquartier für Europas Wasservögel aufzeigt.

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Snow causes train derailment near Andermatt

This content was published on Dec 25, 2011 The incident occurred around 2.45pm near the Andermatt train station. The train was carrying about 30 people, none of whom were injured. All passengers were transferred to the chairlift between Andermatt and Nätschen, train company Matterhorn-Gotthard Bahn said in a statement. The company said traffic on the line would be disrupted for the rest of…

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White Christmas expected only in the mountains

This content was published on Dec 24, 2011 Up to 150 centimetres of snow has fallen in the mountains since Tuesday, but mild weather had raised the snow line to around 800 metres by Friday. The prospects for skiers look good: Swiss-German public television’s Meteo programme has predicted two to four times as much snow as normal at Christmas. With the heavy snow…

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Revised CO2 law reflects uneasy compromise

This content was published on Dec 22, 2011 The compromise reached by both chambers during the current winter session is a response to a people’s initiative launched by environmental groups in 2007 which calls for a 30 per cent reduction on 1990 levels of carbon dioxide emissions by 2020. In concrete terms, the revision of the law on CO2 calls for 10.5 million…

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Ski resorts given gift of white Christmas

This content was published on Dec 22, 2011 More than half a metre of fresh snow has fallen in some parts of the Swiss Alps since Tuesday. After a dry autumn that was the second warmest on record, wet weather – and with it snow in higher regions – returned in the first week of December. Many ski areas including popular resorts like…

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2011 hottest year on record

This content was published on Dec 20, 2011 Average temperatures were the highest since records began in 1864, it said. The year was also notable for being particularly dry across the entire country. It was the hottest spring on record, with temperatures in the high 20s and low 30s recorded in Basel and Ticino in April. Summer meanwhile was characterised by changeable conditions…

Joachim lashes Switzerland

This content was published on Dec 16, 2011 Western Switzerland was particularly badly hit. The Swiss meteorological office described it as one of the most powerful storms in the last ten years. It said it was exceptional because it lasted so long, with winds of between 40 and 60 kilometers an hour for more than 12 hours. The strongest gusts were measured on the…

Storm Joachim arrives in Switzerland

This content was published on Dec 16, 2011 A low pressure system has been making its way down from northern France and Germany, and should reach its peak in Switzerland by the end of Friday morning. The Swiss national weather service told the Swiss News Agency that gusts at speeds of 120km/h had been measured in the Bernese Jura overnight. Also in the…

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Andes reach for the rain, says geologist

This content was published on Dec 15, 2011 The result is that the western side of the central Andes is a flat dry slope, while the eastern side is verdant and hilly – similar to central Switzerland’s Napf region. Fritz Schlunegger of Bern University teamed up with Kevin Norton of New Zealand to discover that the interaction between tectonic uplift and erosion is…

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