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Used paper is big business

This content was published on Nov 8, 2013 The lucrative business of used paper – discarded newspapers, cardboard, and the like – can even end up being discussed before courts of law. In August, the administrative court in the capital Bern had to decide who would get their hands on the approximately 14,000 tons of neatly bound stacks of paper that residents leave…

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Mühleberg plant to close in 2019

This content was published on Oct 30, 2013 BKW took the decision on Wednesday, in what is the latest in many twists and turns in the history of Mühleberg – one of Switzerland’s five nuclear power plants. Built in 1972, Mühleberg is frequently cited by opponents of nuclear energy as ready for closure. The energy company said it had looked in recent months…

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Coping with the dark side of coal

This content was published on Oct 24, 2013 Even without any workday traffic to stir it up, the red dust stings my eyes. But I’m lucky. I can blink a few times – or drive away – and the problem will disappear. Not so for the people living near Belfast in the north-eastern state of Mpumalanga, about 230 kilometres east of Johannesburg. Maria…

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Nicholus Mabena: ‘We need to maintain our assets’

This content was published on Oct 24, 2013

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Sprinkaan Masango: ‘I resent the mine’

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‘I don’t have anywhere else to stay’

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‘We need to maintain our assets’

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Spectacular moonlight faces of Switzerland

This content was published on Oct 19, 2013 The pictures in his book, Helvetia by Night, are the result of years of experiments with long and multiple exposure techniques. Having worked for the Zurich-based Keystone agency from 2005 to 2013, he is now a freelancer.

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Swiss among Greenpeace activists detained in Russia

This content was published on Sep 27, 2013 Following an attempt by 30 Greenpeace activists on September 18 to scale a Russian Arctic platform, a Murmansk court in northwest Russia on Thursday denied bail and gave a two-month jail term to Marco Weber from Switzerland. Among the others detained – the majority of the group, the numbers have not yet been confirmed – were ship captain, Pete…

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‘We need to maintain our assets’

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