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Flooding remains critical in Switzerland

This content was published on Aug 23, 2005 Floodwaters continued to rise on Tuesday in parts of the country where rain is only now starting to ease off. The body of a man was found on Tuesday morning in a swollen stream near the village of Dürnten in canton Zurich. A woman has been reported missing after she slipped and fell in the…

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Flooding remains critical in Switzerland

This content was published on Aug 23, 2005 The situation has improved slightly in canton Lucerne, but cantons Schwyz and Obwalden were fighting rising waters and the resort of Interlaken was partially flooded. President Samuel Schmid, who is also defence minister, visited the disaster region around Lake Lucerne on Monday. He pledged government aid for the worst-affected areas. Several hundred soldiers were deployed…

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Flooding in 2005

This content was published on Aug 22, 2005 Heavy rainfall and flooding in Bern as well as east and central Switzerland in August 2005 caused heavy damage amounting to SFr2.5 billion.

Letten sheds its dark past in style

This content was published on Aug 10, 2005 A decade ago, the disused railway station and tracks to the north of the city centre were littered with needles and the half-comatose bodies of drug addicts. Letten was a victim of the drug-containment experiment that started in Zurich in 1986 but was abandoned by 1994. First Platzspitz, known as Needle Park, was opened to…

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Going on a Swiss bear hunt

This content was published on Aug 4, 2005 The bear’s sudden arrival has been this summer’s big event, and has put the spotlight on the area where it reappeared – the Swiss National Park. You would think by the amount of excitement caused by the large predator, that Switzerland was dealing with the return of Tyrannosaurus Rex, and not a common European brown…

Hunting the bear

This content was published on Aug 4, 2005 In summer 2005 swissinfo.ch went in search of the first wild bear to be seen in Switzerland for more than 100 years – and was not alone. (Michele Andina, swissinfo.ch)

Brown bear back in Switzerland

This content was published on Jul 28, 2005 Officials said on Thursday that a bear had been spotted in a national park in the east of the country. Two park rangers saw the animal early on Thursday morning in the Müstair valley in Graubünden, according to National Parks spokesman Hans Lozza. The sighting was near the border with Italy, where there is already…

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The greatest alpine show on earth?

This content was published on Jul 19, 2005 People are flocking to see global warming at work in the Swiss Alps. A rapidly melting glacier has become a must-see.

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Edelweiss

This content was published on Jul 11, 2005 Farmers in Sembrancher in canton Valais started growing Edelweiss over a decade ago. This symbol of the Swiss Alps is protected in the wild but when it’s grown commercially, it offers a lot of potential for cosmetics and food industries. (Michele Andina, swissinfo.ch)

Third of Swiss tsunami donations allocated

This content was published on Jun 22, 2005 The charity, which is the fundraising arm of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, swissinfo’s parent company, received record donations of SFr224 million. Swiss Solidarity and its partner organisations have already put SFr56 million into use for relief work. Further projects worth almost SFr14 million are currently being processed. To date, Swiss Solidarity has cooperated with 14…

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