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Snow future for alpine tourism?

This content was published on Dec 3, 2007 The nine destinations in the Bernese Alps commissioned a study by Bern University. The results are sobering, and the recommendations sweeping. The study, “Climate change and tourism – an analysis of scenarios for the Bernese Oberland up to the year 2030” points out that the effects are manifold and complex. They cannot, it says, be…

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Alpine resorts could feel the summer heat

This content was published on Dec 3, 2007 Higher temperatures could mean more natural disasters and changes to the landscape, but could also bring in more tourists as well, say experts. But how will Swiss resorts react? Although it is widely thought that some low-lying alpine resorts may go out of business as the snowline rises in winter, the consequences of global warming…

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Leo Jeker

This content was published on Dec 3, 2007

Swiss to target big emitters in Bali

This content was published on Dec 2, 2007 The head of the Swiss negotiating delegation in Bali, Thomas Kolly, told swissinfo that the emerging countries and the United States should be included in the system that applies from 2012. “The countries that currently have binding targets within the Kyoto Protocol account for around one-quarter of CO2 emissions and that is just not enough,”…

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CO2 emissions should face higher taxes

This content was published on Nov 26, 2007 The IEA warned that current efforts to rein in atmospheric pollution including voluntary measures and the so-called “climate centime” are insufficient, and that higher taxes on fuel were necessary. Agency director Nobuo Tanaka said in Bern that while Switzerland had made progress towards reducing greenhouse gases under the Kyoto Protocol, it also had to look…

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Alien spiders invade Europe

This content was published on Nov 22, 2007 The scientists say that over the past 150 years the expansion in global trade has led to more alien spiders, bigger than domestic species, being inadvertently imported. A huge, furry monster goosesteps across the screen. It has eight legs and you just know it’s going to eat everything in sight. It is, of course, that…

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This content was published on Nov 15, 2007

Pollution levels “diluted” in Yangtze

This content was published on Nov 2, 2007 The researchers, who monitored water quality along a 1,750km stretch of the river, said the Yangtze’s “enormous pollution levels” were diluted by the massive water flow. Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology and the Wuhan Institute of Hydrobiology examined the waters of the Yangtze during a six-week project last year.…

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Warmer oceans could drive up CO2 levels

This content was published on Oct 25, 2007 They found that the oceans’ capacity to act as a storehouse for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) appears to be impaired by the gradual increase in water temperatures worldwide. Around one half of the total CO2 released by humans each year is naturally absorbed by the oceans, which contain 60 times more carbon than the atmosphere.…

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New park puts itself on the map

This content was published on Oct 12, 2007 The Valais area in the southwest of the country is famous for mountains such as the Matterhorn, but the Pfynwald – or Pfyn forest – in the Rhone valley is scarcely known outside its immediate area, even though it is full of interest and considerably easier to explore. That is now changing, thanks to a…

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