Environment
Zurich City’s citizens will decide on 28 September 2025 whether to ban petrol-powered leaf blowers. A Left-Green coalition wants only quieter electric ones, and…
On 28 September 2025, Zurich voters approved a citywide ban…
The number of mountain-hiking accidents in Switzerland has doubled in…
On 24 June 2025, human remains were recovered in Blatten, the Valais mountain village largely…
Hiking in the Jura, cycling in Valais, dining lakeside in Ticino: Switzerland remains a top…
Switzerland faces rising wildfire risk and authorities are restricting water use as drought grips parts…
Torrential summer rainstorms are set to become more common—and more severe—in the Alps. A new…
Swiss public opinion on energy is shifting. A small majority now supports reconsidering nuclear power,…
Though they account for just 3% of Switzerland’s road network, motorways carried over 40% of…