Cluster: Science

Swiss carbon offset foundation to cut 10% of staff

Myclimate cuts around ten per cent of jobs

This content was published on Aug 26, 2025 Myclimate will cut around 10% of its jobs by the end of the year. At the end of 2024, almost 200 employees were working for the foundation.

Climate adaptation

Switzerland’s Grande Dixence: how Europe’s tallest dam measures up at 75

This content was published on Aug 25, 2025 Built between 1950 and 1961 by 3,000 workers in gruelling conditions, the Grande Dixence is now 75 years old. Here are seven key facts about the spectacular dam.

Climate adaptation

Europe’s tallest dam turns 75

This content was published on Aug 25, 2025 Built by 3,000 workers in the rugged Swiss Alps, the Grande Dixence dam is a towering symbol of Swiss engineering and hydropower innovation.

extreme heat work health. Construction worker Justino cools off during a heat wave in Texas.

International Geneva

Too hot to work? Extreme heat endangers billions of workers

This content was published on Aug 22, 2025 Billions of workers face heat stress, illness and lost income as global temperatures climb, warns a WHO-WMO joint report.

Just Eat experiments with meal delivery by robot

Swiss AI

Swiss robots to deliver Just Eat takeaway meals

This content was published on Aug 21, 2025 Swiss robots to deliver Just Eat Takeaway meals.

Demand for solar panels has increased in recent years

Climate solutions

Swiss solar industry fears end of boom period

This content was published on Aug 21, 2025 Swiss solar panel company goes bankrupt as the domestic industry faces reduction in state subsidies.

Russian propaganda uses familiar patterns of wording

Foreign Affairs

Swiss develop algorithm to filter Russian Telegram propaganda

This content was published on Aug 21, 2025 Swiss researchers develop algorithm to automatically detect propaganda on the messaging service Telegram.

The city of Lucerne: the flood of 2005 is among the worst natural disasters in recent history in Switzerland.

Climate adaptation

Is Switzerland’s natural disaster insurance a model for the world?

This content was published on Aug 21, 2025 The Swiss insurance system against natural hazards also offers cover in high-risk areas. A unique model that could inspire other countries.

The Aletsch glacier will disappear by 2100, according to an Italian study

Glaciers & permafrost

Swiss Aletsch glacier ‘will disappear by 2100’

This content was published on Aug 20, 2025 The Aletsch glacier in Switzerland is likely to disappear by 2100, say ecologists.

View of the fjord and front of the Eqalorutsit Kangilliit Sermiat glacier in southern Greenland.

Glaciers & permafrost

Fibre optics detect the invisible waves that melt Greenland’s ice sheet

This content was published on Aug 20, 2025 The breaking off of large chunks of ice from glaciers accelerates the melting of the Arctic ice sheet in Greenland. This has been measured for the first time by a research team using fibre optics.

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