According to Swiss broadcaster RTS, 14 people are unaccounted for following a landslide in the Val Bondasca region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden on Wednesday. Rocks and earth poured down the valley. A video of the landslide can be seen here. RTS shows the aftermath in another video. According to local police, six of […]
Balls or burgers – insect products coming to Swiss supermarkets soon
Would you eat balls made from insects? Last year the Swiss supermarket Coop applied for authorisation to sell insect based products. Then on 14 August 2017 it announced a limited number of its stores and its delivery service Coop@home would start selling the products from 21 August 2017, phasing the products in across other stores between […]
Super high-speed train between Zurich and Milan unveiled
20 Minutes. Dubbed the “Superveloce”, the new high-speed journey is expected to start operating between now and 2020. Made possible by the opening of the new Gotthard train tunnel, the trip should take only 2 hours and 45 minutes. Since the world’s longest train tunnel was opened in December 2016, 2.3 million passengers have passed through […]
More than 3 planets needed if we all lived like Swiss residents
If every one the world’s 7.5 billion people lived like the residents of Switzerland we would need 3.1 planets to live sustainably according to calculations by the Global Footprint Network. In aggregate, humanity has been living on credit since 2 August 2017. This means we are depleting earthly resources available to future generations of humans and everything […]
46 percent of Switzerland’s plant and animal life at risk from human activity
A recent government report sets out a long list of fungi, plants and animals that are extinct or at risk from human activity. 3% of the 10,350 native species studied have already disappeared, 5% are on the verge of extinction, 11% are in danger, 17% are vulnerable, and 10% are potentially threatened. These percentages add up to 46%. The […]
Swiss researchers show city dwellers travel more but not to where they thought
Data analysis shows that while those living in the city centres spend less time in their cars commuting, they travel more for leisure. One popular explanation for this is that these urban dwellers are seeking nature on their time off to compensate for their largely concrete existence, something known as the barbecue effect. The barbecue effect assumes those […]
Couple found on Swiss glacier 75 years after their mysterious disappearance
The mummified bodies of a couple were recently found near the summit of Les Diablerets in Switzerland by an employee of the 3000 Glacier lift operator, according to Le Matin. The two bodies, found together, revealed signs of where they were from and when they perished. The style of their clothes suggested they had been […]
Swiss Rail boss says ticket prices should stay stable
20 Minutes. Andreas Meyer, the head of Swiss Rail, told the newspaper Le Matin Dimanche that Swiss Rail ticket prices should remain stable in the future. He said prices could even go down in order to compete with road travel. “Car makers want to make road journeys cheaper…. This is why we are working to […]
Tax to rise as Switzerland misses emissions target
Recently published emissions numbers for 2016 show that Switzerland has not met its 2016 target for reducing emissions. The 2016 target, set at 27% less than emissions in 1990, was missed by 2.2%. Because of this the government must raise the tax on emissions from CHF 84 to CHF 96 per tonne of CO2 equivalent […]
Earthquake felt in Vaud
Some in the Swiss canton of Vaud might have felt the earth wobble this morning when a quake of 4.3 on the richter scale occurred. The exact location of the quake was Rossinière, according to the Swiss seismological service in Zurich. 10:10 Séisme de magnitude 4.3 à Rossinière VD. Ressenti sur une zone étendue. Dégâts […]
