GENEVA (AP) — A Swiss Academy of Sciences panel is reporting a dramatic acceleration of glacier melt in the Alpine country, which has lost 10% of its ice volume in just two years after high ...
Glaciers are at serious risk from climate change. Melting glaciers have the potential to endanger coastlines in Massachusetts ...
Swiss glaciers experienced record melting last year, losing more than 6% of their volume and alarming scientists who say a loss of 2% would once have been considered extreme. Categories ...
Near-final results showed almost 59 percent of voters supporting the new law, which will require Switzerland to slash its dependence on imported oil and gas, scaling up the development and use of ...
You can only take your government to court if you’re personally affected. . . . The most affected are elder women.” ...
Annual variation in the mass of the world's 40 reference glaciers, in tonnes per m2 Melting glaciers In 2023, glaciers melted at the fastest rate since 1950 Sources: WMO, WGMS -1.23 The Barron's ...
Invasive species have rapidly colonised new ground exposed by melting glaciers in the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, according to new research. Invasive species brought to new territories ...
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On Friday activists gather in Swiss cities for the latest“global climate strike”. As numbers on the streets dwindle, is the ...
BENGALURU: The Himalayan mountains, often called the “Third Pole” due to their vast glaciers and snow cover, are highly vulnerable to global climate change impacts both physically and societally.
Earlier this month, a group of older Swiss women won a landmark climate case at the European Court of Human Rights in ...
Originally from Ireland, Domhnall worked in research and writing in a couple of European countries before joining swissinfo.ch in 2017. He covers direct democracy and politics and is usually in Bern.