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Gotthard safety improved by new freight centre

This content was published on Sep 9, 2009 The Ripshausen centre at the town of Erstfeld, about 25 kilometres from the northern entrance to the tunnel, not only boasts ultramodern facilities for checking vehicles and their loads, but also has a restaurant, service station, showers and toilets, and drivers will be able to stay there overnight. “Ripsi loves everyone,” Transport Minister Moritz Leuenberger…

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Nature Parks

This content was published on Sep 7, 2009 The Swiss National Park and the Unesco biosphere in the Entlebuch were the country’s first nature parks. In 2010 there will be two more protected nature areas. More park projects have been given the green light or are in preparation.

Nature park status becomes engine of growth

This content was published on Sep 7, 2009 In the last two years, the total area of the country being set aside as parkland has jumped from 0.4 to 14 per cent (5,750km2). The figure could rise to 20 per cent. The explosive growth is the result of a new law governing the establishment and operation of parks, the Nature and Cultural Heritage…

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Animal rights group targets McChicken

This content was published on Sep 6, 2009 SAP has started a nationwide petition to force McDonald’s to stop buying chicken, milk and eggs from foreign suppliers – imports which it describes as “problematic ecologically and for animal rights”. The organisation said McDonald’s Switzerland imports 1,000 tons of chicken breasts from factory farms annually. These farms do not live up to Swiss animal…

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Minister calls for funds to fight climate change

This content was published on Sep 4, 2009 Moritz Leuenberger was speaking at an informal meeting of ministers and experts on the sidelines of the World Climate Conference in Geneva. “The greatest challenge consists in making sufficient funds available for adaptation measures and allocating them fairly,” he said. The United Nation’s climate secretariat puts the funding requirement at between several tens of billions…

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Swiss urged to pursue bolder climate policy

This content was published on Sep 3, 2009 swissinfo.ch caught up with Swiss climatologist Thomas Stocker, who co-chairs a working group of the prestigious Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), after his speech at the third World Climate Conference in Geneva on Monday. The week-long event is being organized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), together with Switzerland, and seeks to improve the…

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A visit to Trub

This content was published on Sep 1, 2009 Trub is a typical Emmental village – but in 2008 what differentiated it from other Swiss villages was the record low turnout of its voters. (pictures by Thomas Kern, swissinfo.ch)

Science solves the mystery of the red lake

This content was published on Sep 1, 2009 A Zurich-led team of researchers have now pinpointed the reason – a rare algal bloom Tovellia sanguinea, in what is only the second case of its kind in Europe and the first in Switzerland. The 1,140-metre high lake, near the Säntis mountain in Appenzell Inner Rhodes in eastern Switzerland, suddenly turned red at the end…

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Talks aim to improve climate change adaptation

This content was published on Aug 30, 2009 Switzerland, which has a long tradition of research and adjusting to climate change, backs the creation of a global system to ensure decision-makers obtain accurate and timely climate information and predictions. The third World Climate Conference, organized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), together with Switzerland, runs from Monday until Friday September 4. The Geneva…

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Global warming puts a stop to skiing out of season

This content was published on Aug 28, 2009

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