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Police block Lake Constance bomb site

This content was published on Sep 15, 2011 For this reason they have blocked off the area near the lakeside town of Staad. A unit of the Swiss army’s explosive ordinance disposal team located the bomb on Thursday. It had originally been spotted by the divers in August. According to the St Gallen police, it is an aircraft bomb measuring 125 by 42…

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Weather Beaten

This content was published on Sep 2, 2011 More thunder followed, then a faceful of snow blasted through the partially open bedroom window in the Hoernli Hut. At 4:35 I went down to where breakfast should have been underway. Instead it was dark, the hut staff having decided it wasn’t worth getting up for. I stepped out the front door and snow slanted…

On top of the Alps

This content was published on Aug 30, 2011 Perched in the most unimaginably spectacular location, it is not far from the summit of the second highest peak in the Alps, the Dufourspitze, 4634m, which is part of the massive Monte Rosa complex. The hut is Italian, and maybe it’s on that side of the border by a meter or two. It’s perched exactly…

Swiss weather service issues storm alert

This content was published on Aug 26, 2011 MeteoSwiss says a cold front moving eastward from France is expected to hit Switzerland with gusts of up to 100 kilometres an hour. It said most of the country would be hit by severe rainfall and even hail from Friday into Saturday. Most of the country has a storm warning of level four, the second highest…

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OceanCare granted UN role

This content was published on Aug 25, 2011 This new status, announced on Thursday, means that the non-profit organisation will have more clout within the framework of the UN. OceanCare says this is a big step forward because it will be able to speak at UN sessions just like member states do. “On the one hand, this recognition honours the marine conservation work…

Climate protestors sentenced in Denmark

This content was published on Aug 22, 2011 The Greenpeace members gatecrashed a dinner party given by Queen Margrethe of Denmark. Once inside, they held up signs demanding action to stop global warming. Their banners read: “Politicians talk, leaders act.” Two of the protestors posed as the president and first lady of Georgia after gaining access to the building in a limousine equipped with…

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Crossings

This content was published on Aug 22, 2011 It’s sort of a reversal of the migration route of the Walser people of Bosco-Gurin, except that everything is different. Besides our obviously different times and circumstances, there’s the matter of route. I thought about them yesterday as I crossed the Passo San Giacomo, which they likely crossed as well some 800 years ago. But…

If we could talk to the animals…

This content was published on Aug 9, 2011 A horse which can’t gallop, a cat which catches snakes – an unusual woman claims to have found an unusual way to find out why.

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Bern bears to travel east in September

This content was published on Aug 7, 2011 A spokesman for the bear park said the female twin cubs would be moved over land from the Swiss capital to a reserve near Zarnesti, 200 kilometres northwest of Bucharest next month. The cubs were born in the Bern Bear Park in December 2009. As mother bears reject their offspring when they are old enough…

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Green groups file legal action over River Doubs

This content was published on Aug 2, 2011 The groups accused the authorities of failing to take action against polluters and the untimely release of water from power plants in the remote region. “The Doubs dies and the king of the Doubs with it,” the groups warned on Tuesday. The king of the Doubs is a protected fish species, Zingel asper, which is in…

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