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Heatwave prompts cool response from government

This content was published on Aug 16, 2004 A report published on Monday stated that there was no need for immediate action even though similar weather extremes could be expected in the future. The study, compiled by the Swiss environment agency and the Federal Office for Water and Geology, examined the consequences of last summer’s record temperatures. Météosuisse, a national weather service, contributed…

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Walking in the Alps is reinvented

This content was published on Aug 3, 2004 New trends mean that the most basic form of motion now involves much more than putting one leg in front of the other to get from A to B. Half of the Swiss population say they hike regularly, and nearly 30 per cent say they would like to do more. Yet the latest studies show…

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Switzerland’s rivers return to their old ways

This content was published on Jul 22, 2004 Today, some 100 projects are underway to reverse the mistakes of the past by restoring waterways to their normal meandering routes. Between 1870 and 1940, Swiss rivers and lakes were subjected to major dam-building and canalisation works. “In those days, most of the population still worked the land and water courses were rerouted and canalised…

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World will not freeze again for 15,000 years

This content was published on Jun 10, 2004 The findings are based on research conducted by drilling three kilometres below the surface of the ice in Antarctica. The European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (Epica) has been testing the ice in a bid to trace the pattern of global climate change over a period of thousands of years. Epica scientists claim that…

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Environment Agency sounds alarm

This content was published on Jun 4, 2004 The Swiss environment agency says that despite progress in some areas Switzerland’s natural habitat remains under threat. The agency’s director, Philippe Roch, warned this week that without a concerted effort, developed countries would fail to reach the targets in the Kyoto Protocol for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. That treaty, which has yet to be ratified…

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Switzerland leads global effort to protect forests

This content was published on Apr 26, 2004 The environment agency says Swiss conservation programmes could serve as models for other nations struggling to halt the destruction of tropical rainforest. The four-day event, jointly organised by Switzerland and Indonesia, runs until Friday in the lakeside town of Interlaken. “The workshop in Interlaken will give experts from all over the world the opportunity to…

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Environment agency stretched by budget cuts

This content was published on Apr 14, 2004 It is losing almost a fifth of its budget as part of a huge round of public spending cuts agreed by parliament in November. Announcing the job losses and a restructuring programme in Bern on Wednesday, Philippe Roch, director of the environment agency, said he was concerned about the consequences of the cuts. “It is…

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Chemical “cocktail” decimates fish stocks

This content was published on Jan 30, 2004 A new report, published on Friday, said urgent measures were needed to restore the country’s waterways to health. During last year’s sweltering summer, television viewers were treated to images of thousands of dead fish being removed from the country’s rivers. On the upper Rhine, between Stein and Schaffhausen, the country’s largest population of perch was…

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A rainforest takes root at Zurich zoo

This content was published on Jan 21, 2004 But the SFr52 million project has also cast a spotlight on the role of conservation. Some critics have questioned whether the money might have been better spent on saving a real rainforest rather than creating an artificial one. From special insulating material for the roof, to the planting of 17,000 species of plants, not to…

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Upgrading Central Asia’s water supply

This content was published on Jan 13, 2004 Experts are warning of regional conflict if the former Soviet republics do not work together to manage the supply of water. Swiss development projects in the region aim to ensure that water does not become a source of tension between populations. Andrei Yakovlev works for the Swiss Aral Sea Mission, which is responsible for the…

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