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Too hot to work? Extreme heat endangers billions of workers

extreme heat work health. Construction worker Justino cools off during a heat wave in Texas.

This content was published on Aug 22, 2025 Billions of workers face heat stress, illness and lost income as global temperatures climb, warns a WHO-WMO joint report.

Just Eat experiments with meal delivery by robot

Swiss AI

Swiss robots to deliver Just Eat takeaway meals

This content was published on Aug 21, 2025 Swiss robots to deliver Just Eat Takeaway meals.

Demand for solar panels has increased in recent years

Climate solutions

Swiss solar industry fears end of boom period

This content was published on Aug 21, 2025 Swiss solar panel company goes bankrupt as the domestic industry faces reduction in state subsidies.

Russian propaganda uses familiar patterns of wording

Foreign Affairs

Swiss develop algorithm to filter Russian Telegram propaganda

This content was published on Aug 21, 2025 Swiss researchers develop algorithm to automatically detect propaganda on the messaging service Telegram.

The city of Lucerne: the flood of 2005 is among the worst natural disasters in recent history in Switzerland.

Climate adaptation

Is Switzerland’s natural disaster insurance a model for the world?

This content was published on Aug 21, 2025 The Swiss insurance system against natural hazards also offers cover in high-risk areas. A unique model that could inspire other countries.

The Aletsch glacier will disappear by 2100, according to an Italian study

Glaciers & permafrost

Swiss Aletsch glacier ‘will disappear by 2100’

This content was published on Aug 20, 2025 The Aletsch glacier in Switzerland is likely to disappear by 2100, say ecologists.

View of the fjord and front of the Eqalorutsit Kangilliit Sermiat glacier in southern Greenland.

Glaciers & permafrost

Fibre optics detect the invisible waves that melt Greenland’s ice sheet

This content was published on Aug 20, 2025 The breaking off of large chunks of ice from glaciers accelerates the melting of the Arctic ice sheet in Greenland. This has been measured for the first time by a research team using fibre optics.

5 megatonnes of emissions from 2050 despite net zero

Emissions reduction

Switzerland could produce up to 5Mt of emissions annually by 2050

This content was published on Aug 16, 2025 Two to five megatonnes of CO2 equivalents per year: this is the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that Switzerland is still expected to produce annually in 2050, a new study shows.

Blatten in Valais to be rebuilt in four years

Swiss Politics

Destroyed Swiss village of Blatten to be rebuilt within four years

This content was published on Aug 14, 2025 After the devastating landslide, Blatten in Valais should be standing again by 2029. Municipal president Matthias Bellwald confirmed the corresponding plans to the Keystone-SDA news agency on Wednesday, which he had presented at a municipal meeting the previous evening.

Owing to a spike in ozone pollution, public transport will be free throughout the canton, on Wednesday,

Climate adaptation

Geneva offers free public transport due to ozone spike

This content was published on Aug 13, 2025 Public transport will be free in canton Geneva on Wednesday due to a spike in ozone pollution - a Swiss first.

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