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World tour of solar-powered vehicle underway

This content was published on May 15, 2010 The 520kg vehicle, which can reach maximum speeds of 90km per hour, left the western Swiss town on Saturday and will visit about 30 countries by October 2011. The trip will first take the team of two environmentalists to Italy, Tunisia and Morocco, according to the leader of the Icare (Icarus) project, Marc Muller. The…

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Missing Swiss activist remembered 10 years on

This content was published on May 7, 2010 The six-member delegation from the Malaysian state of Sarawak, which controls part of Borneo, and three representatives of the Bruno Manser Fund met with human security experts at the Swiss foreign ministry on Friday. A spokesman for the ministry said the meeting had been an opportunity for the delegation to raise concerns about the island.…

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An alpine kingdom of rock and ice

This content was published on May 4, 2010 The protected area, which lies between the Bernese Oberland and northeastern Valais, covers more than 800 kilometres² and is the first site of its kind in the Alps. Countless roads, trails, cableways, ski-lifts and mountain railways – the best known being the Jungfrau line – lead up to the protected area and, in some cases,…

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A geological window on the past

This content was published on May 4, 2010 Its setting in eastern Switzerland, is well-known for its breathtaking Alpine scenery and mountain lakes. Since the end of the 18th century this area has also been of great interest to scientists because of an outcrop of rock approximately 35 kilometres long and 25 km wide. It rises to more than 3,000 metres in several…

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Rhaetian Railway

This content was published on Apr 27, 2010 The Albula and Bernina lines which stretch from Thusis to Tirano are extraordinary examples of the technological innovation, showing man’s mastery of the Alpine landscape. They became a Unesco World Heritage site in July 2008.

Power groups to drop German coal-burning plant

This content was published on Apr 12, 2010 Groupe E and Energie Romande, both based in western Switzerland, announced that environmentalist and consumer criticism had influenced their decision. In 2008, the two groups invested a total of nearly SFr200 million ($189 million) in Südweststrom, which plans to build a coal-burning plant in Brunsbüttel. Both companies are now looking for buyers to take over…

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Spring has sprung

This content was published on Mar 24, 2010 Winter has left Switzerland, at least at the lower altitudes. People and animals alike enjoy the warmer temperatures and prepare for summer. (Rolf Amiet, swissinfo.ch)

“Vital climate decisions must not be delayed”

This content was published on Feb 22, 2010 The former vice-president of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and now professor at Geneva University, says 2010 is a pivotal year and climate decisions must not be put off. Beniston is set to contribute a couple of chapters to the panel’s fifth report, expected in four years. But a steady drip of small…

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Swiss fund kindergarten for deaf in Mongolia

This content was published on Feb 4, 2010 In 2006 the first kindergarten for the deaf opened in the capital, Ulan Bator, thanks mainly to the Swiss, Hans Jutzi. After emigrating to Mongolia in 2001, with the intention of staying, Jutzi and his wife, Friedi, had to return to Switzerland unexpectedly only a year later. They had been touched by the plight of…

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A long road of ice

This content was published on Jan 22, 2010

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