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Climate Change – intro tourism

This content was published on Sep 23, 2009 Travellers are responsible for the growth of passenger traffic – by air, road or rail – and therefore greenhouse gas emissions. This dossier investigates the impact climate change is having on alpine resorts – and how they are reacting.

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First zoo-born gorilla reaches half a century

This content was published on Sep 23, 2009 Basel Zoo is throwing a party for Goma, offering her and the zoo’s other gorillas special birthday snacks, and treating the public to a film about her life, as well as giving visitors a sneak preview of a new open air ape enclosure being constructed. The infant Goma was raised by the zoo’s director at…

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Swiss quick to move into Slow Food fast lane

This content was published on Sep 19, 2009 However, the Swiss – as recent studies show – may need less convincing of the benefits of a wholesome meal than the people, for instance, in France or the United States. Over the past few years, books including Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore’s Dilemma exposing the devastating impact of the industrial food system on…

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Swiss tire of biotech debate

This content was published on Sep 18, 2009 According to a new study, stakeholders are tired of the topic, the media is not reporting on it and the public is ambivalent. And most people welcome the government’s proposal to extend the current moratorium on the commercial use of genetically-modified (GM) plants. The “Green Technology in the Public Sphere” project, whose results were revealed…

UN releases report on Ivorian toxic waste case

This content was published on Sep 18, 2009 Okechukwu Ibeanu’s report into the incident will be presented to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this week. But Trafigura, the international commodities trader that chartered the ship, repeatedly denies any wrongdoing and says the UN report is “deeply flawed”. On the evening of August 19, 2006, the Probo Koala ship, chartered by Trafigura,…

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Federal police to run Novartis attacks probe

This content was published on Sep 17, 2009 The British-based group Militant Forces against Huntingdon Life Science has claimed responsibility for a fire at the pharmaceutical boss’s Austrian holiday home in August. In July the Vasella family grave was also desecrated and crosses bearing Vasella’s name and that of his wife were placed in a Chur cemetery. The Federal Police Office will liaise…

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City of bears receives Russian bruins

This content was published on Sep 16, 2009 According to the authorities in Bern, the animals are gifts given in connection with Medvedev’s visit to Switzerland scheduled for next week. The bears, which were flown to Switzerland on Monday, are being kept in quarantine in a part of the city’s former bear pit screened off from public view. The newcomers join two other…

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Climate Change – Intro

This content was published on Sep 14, 2009 swissinfo.ch takes a look at how Switzerland is meeting the challenges, focussing on research issues, energy concerns and global warming’s impact on Switzerland’s vulnerable tourism sector.

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This content was published on Sep 11, 2009

Winter fairy tale

This content was published on Sep 11, 2009

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