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Fine-particle pollution worries authorities

This content was published on Feb 26, 2008 The 80km speed limit was introduced on Monday on the stretch between Chiasso and Taverne after pollution levels exceeded permitted levels. The authorities called on the local population to avoid using cars and to lower the temperature in apartments. The situation in Ticino is not expected to improve within the next few days owing to…

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Experts call for sharp cut to CO2 emissions

This content was published on Feb 25, 2008 They said achieving this ambitious goal – Swiss levels currently stand at more than six tons per capita of carbon dioxide – would involve the three Es: increased efficiency, renewable energy and electricity. For the past year, researchers at the federal institute’s Energy Science Centre have been considering ways of countering the ongoing rise of…

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Geneva to ban smoking and dangerous dogs

This content was published on Feb 24, 2008 The decision makes Geneva the sixth Swiss canton to approve a smoking ban. The details of the law must now be worked out by the cantonal parliament. The anti-smoking initiative was one of several local issues put before voters in Geneva. They also approved an initiative to ban dangerous dogs. Fighting dogs will be forbidden…

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Paying the price for past pollution policy

This content was published on Feb 20, 2008 Experts say the case is typical of past environmental practices in Switzerland, when no protection laws existed. Many more sites are said to be affected. Waste disposal sites like La Pila, in French-speaking Switzerland, were the norm mid last century, when the country was undergoing a period of economic growth. “Nobody realised that the environment…

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Supermarkets seek to boost green credentials

This content was published on Feb 15, 2008 The independent Climatop organisation announced on Friday that it was launching a CO2 label to be awarded to products which cause the least damage to the environment. Climatop has been set up by the myclimate foundation – a spinoff from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich – and the Ecological Centre at Langenbruck to…

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Bird rules ruffle environmentalists’ feathers

This content was published on Feb 15, 2008 Cantons will be given greater freedom to control their cormorant populations and some unhatched eggs may now be destroyed. The authorities said they had made the decision in consultation with all stakeholders, but the organisation BirdLife Switzerland argued that its concerns were ignored. It said valuable bird protection areas would now be threatened. The cormorant…

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Glaciers still shrinking

This content was published on Feb 7, 2008 The academy said on Thursday that three glaciers monitored by scientists lost ice mass. These mass measurements provide an immediate evaluation of the impact of climate conditions. Records show that the country’s glaciers suffered more on only three occasions: 1998, 2003 and 2006. In addition 88 other glaciers shrank. Only one become longer, while two…

New findings heat up climate debate

This content was published on Feb 1, 2008 Their findings, based on the examination of ice core samples from the Antarctic and Greenland, add force to last year’s conclusions by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In a series of reports in 2007, the United Nations’ main climate body concluded that warming of the planet was unequivocal, sea levels were on the rise…

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Development aid focuses on climate change

This content was published on Jan 31, 2008 The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) says that while overcoming the effects of global warming has been part and parcel of its mission for years, it is now more important than ever. “The relevance of climate change to development aid is obvious now,” Walter Fust, head of the SDC, said in Bern on…

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Endangered falcon named number one bird

This content was published on Jan 30, 2008 The Swiss Association for the Protection of Birds, BirdLife, said the kestrel – a type of a falcon – is threatened by food shortages and disappearing habitats. It is calling for financial support from the authorities to provide more places where the birds can nest. It says that new structures do not attract the birds…

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