Cluster: Science

New hope for cable cars and mountain huts threatened by permafrost collapse

A crack in a ski lift structure in the Swiss Alps caused by thawing permafrost.

This content was published on Jul 16, 2025 A novel scientific solution being developed in Switzerland aims to stabilise mountain infrastructure endangered by climate change.

In recent years ski resorts at lower altitudes have had to re-think their tourism offers due to the lack of snow.

Climate adaptation

Climate change puts Swiss tourism to the test

This content was published on Jul 16, 2025 Climate change threatens tourism in Switzerland - and is partly caused by it. How can the industry become more sustainable?

Stabilising permafrost in the Swiss Alps

Climate solutions

Permafrost thawing: protecting endangered mountain infrastructure in the Swiss Alps

This content was published on Jul 16, 2025 Elizaveta Sharaborova, a Swiss-based researcher, explains how her solar-powered prototype can stabilise thawing permafrost threatening Alpine infrastructure.

Gösgen SO nuclear power plant is off the grid for an indefinite period

Swiss nuclear plant is off the grid for an indefinite period

This content was published on Jul 15, 2025 The operator must provide evidence of fallback in case of a possible overload in the feedwater pipework system.

Romandie thanks to warm weather points to olive trees, could overtake Ticino

Agribusiness

Swiss olive cultivation to get a boost thanks to warm weather

This content was published on Jul 15, 2025 More and more farmers in French-speaking Switzerland see climate change as an opportunity for olive cultivation.

FOT wants night trains to Sweden from April 2026

Emissions reduction

Night trains from Switzerland to Sweden planned for 2026

This content was published on Jul 15, 2025 A Basel-Copenhagen-Malmö night train service could be operational as early as April 2026.

Swiss researchers are active in designing next generation semiconductors

Swiss AI

Swiss chip industry fuelled by research, not cash windfalls

This content was published on Jul 15, 2025 Many countries are pouring billions into their semiconductor industries, but Swiss funds focus on research.

Spanish flu: virus genome deciphered a century later

Research frontiers

Swiss researchers sequence genome of 1918 Spanish flu virus

This content was published on Jul 14, 2025 Researchers from the Universities of Basel and Zurich (UZH) have sequenced the genome of the Spanish flu virus, thanks to a sample taken from an 18-year-old Swiss boy who died in the city on the Limmat in 1918, when the pandemic spread around the world.

FOEN Director warns of increasing climate risks in Switzerland

Climate adaptation

Environment director warns of increasing climate-related risks in Switzerland

This content was published on Jul 13, 2025 The director of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) has warned of increasing climate-related risks in Switzerland in an interview with SonntagsBlick on Sunday.

Switzerland's highest campsite has to close

Climate adaptation

Switzerland’s highest campsite closes due to mudslide risks

This content was published on Jul 13, 2025 Valais authorities have ordered the closure of Switzerland's highest campsite in Arolla due to the risks of mudslides.

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