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Main road reopens as fire comes under control

This content was published on Apr 27, 2011 Several dozen trucks had been unable to drive through to Brig on Tuesday, because the alternative route for private cars was not strong enough to bear their weight. Their drivers had been forced to spend the night in emergency parking areas just west of Visp. Private cars were still having to use the detour on…

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Yamagishi communities live without money or personal possessions

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Minor showers fail to halt impact of drought

This content was published on Apr 24, 2011 The private weather service, Meteonews, said the quantities were not enough to make up for the shortfall since the beginning of the year, but that they had “halted the progress of the drought regionally”. Sunday’s SonntagsZeitung newspaper quoted an expert from the Swiss weather service, Meteo Swiss, who said only one third of average precipitation…

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University readies for rare bloom

This content was published on Apr 20, 2011 The only previous time a titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) produced a flower in Switzerland was 75 years ago. It has taken the garden’s 20kg corm 17 years to reach the blossoming stage, but the two-metre tall flower will die back after only a few days. Its mother plant last bloomed in the Frankfurt Palm Garden…

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Ski season is victim of early spring

This content was published on Apr 19, 2011 According to the Swiss Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, there is only about half as much snow as usual above the 2,000-metre mark. Between 1,000 and 2,000 metres, there is only about a quarter of the typical amount of snow for this time of year. In some places there is less snow than in…

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Swiss increase uranium stocks abroad

This content was published on Apr 19, 2011 Information released by the Federal Energy Office show stores of natural and enriched uranium increased from 124.9 tons in 2009 to 204.9 tons in 2010. Stocks of reprocessed uranium were reduced by 20 kilograms to 1866.6 tons, while plutonium stock levels remained unchanged. The materials are being stored by France, Germany, Britain, Sweden and the…

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Dry weather sinks Swiss water levels

This content was published on Apr 13, 2011 While Tuesday’s light rain was quite welcome in many parts of the country, the authorities say it would take days of non-stop downpours to make up for the deficit of rain in recent weeks and months. According to a report by the Swiss Federal Environment Office, the levels of the lakes in Biel, Murten and…

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High temperatures rewrite record books

This content was published on Apr 10, 2011 On Friday, the 30 degrees Celsius experienced in Lugano, canton Ticino, marked the earliest very hot day ever. On Saturday, the Swiss Meteorological Office saw the record temperature of 31.8 degrees in neighbouring Locarno. The record books also had to be written north of the Alps. In Basel on Thursday the temperature reached 26 degrees;…

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“Trouser pear” named Fruit of the Year

This content was published on Apr 9, 2011 The so-called Swiss Trouser Pear is so named for its distinctive yellow, green and red colouring. A table fruit, the trouser pear grows in warm climates and is usually harvested in late October or early November. There are just two trouser pear trees remaining in Switzerland, both in canton St Gallen, according to Fructus, the…

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