Eight years of legal fighting came down to this one moment. On 9 April, Cordelia Bähr and the 2,500-plus women she represented in a landmark climate lawsuit were waiting to hear how the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) would rule. “I was very, very, very nervous,” says Bähr. But at the same time, she...
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The 359-mile European border separating two beautiful countries to be redrawn
The impact of climate change has now reached an international level, as the beautiful countries of Italy and Switzerland prepare to redraw their shared border and change European maps forever. On September 27, the Swiss Federal Council approved an agreement on the historically defined border. The process of finalising the border change is underway in...
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Melting glaciers force Italy and Switzerland to redraw border in the Alps
Swisstopo, Switzerland’s national mapping agency, says that the country’s borders with Italy, France, Austria, Germany and Liechtenstein have to be amended fairly frequently. The changes are normally based on readings taken by surveyors, without politicians getting involved. Across the Alps, glaciers are melting at alarming rates. In the summer of 2022, 11 hikers were killed...
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Swiss voters reject plan to better protect the country’s biodiversity
Switzerland, known for natural beauty like pristine lakes and majestic Alpine peaks, ranks among the world’s richest countries whose plant and animal life is under the greatest threat. Environmentalists were seeking better protections for the country’s biodiversity in a nationwide vote that culminated on Sunday. Final official results showed more than 63 per cent of...
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Switzerland reopens door for new nuclear power plants
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Man’s pics in front of same glacier 15 years apart show devastating impact of climate change
Glaciers worldwide are rapidly melting due to climate change. Rising global temperatures fuel the shrinking of these colossal ice formations. A man shared two pictures that show such changes in Switzerland’s Rhone Glacier. His post sadly captures the glacier’s devastating state. The image shows a picture a man took in front of Rhone Glacier in...
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Switzerland at further risk of natural disasters, government warns
Severe weather has caused at least four deaths in the mountainous central European country of Switzerland, forcing one federal politician to ponder if the country is capable of weathering future storms. ADVERTISEMENT After extreme weather events in Switzerland that have left at least four people dead, the Alpine country might have become further imperilled by...
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Seven dead after severe storms lash France, Switzerland and Italy
Ferocious storms and torrential rains that lashed France, Switzerland and Italy this weekend have left at least seven people dead, local authorities said on Sunday. Three people died after torrential rains triggered a landslide in southeastern Switzerland, police in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino said Sunday. Elsewhere in Switzerland, a man was found dead in...
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Swiss scientists invent healthier and more sustainable chocolate
Cocoa fruit contains other valuable ingredients that have been underutilised until now, the researchers say. ADVERTISEMENT Scientists in Switzerland have invented a way to make chocolate healthier and more sustainable. No Oompa Loompas, chocolate rivers or magical gum were involved in the making of this new treat – simply a fresh look at the whole...
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Senior Swiss women prevail in landmark climate case at Europe’s human rights court | CBC News
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Tuesday in favour of a group of elderly Swiss women who had argued that their government’s inadequate efforts to combat climate change put them at risk of dying during heat waves. The European court’s decision on the case, brought by more than 2,000 women, could have...
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Swiss government violated women’s human rights by climate change inaction, ECHR rules
The European Court of Human Rights has made a landmark ruling that governments have a duty to protect people from climate change. In a case brought by a group of elderly Swiss women, the Strasbourg judges ruled that Switzerland was not doing enough to tackle climate change. The ruling is binding and can trickle down...
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Down with WHO, the John Fetterman-RFK ‘resistance’ and other commentary
Pandemic journal: Down With the WHO! “The response to COVID was the greatest mistake in the history of the public-health profession,” thunders City Journal’s John Tierney — and now the World Health Organization, chief author of the catastrophe, “wants new authority to make its bureaucrats’ whims mandatory” and “to censor those who disagree.” That’s via...
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