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Stream daylighting can help manage stormwater, restore habitats and create greener, more walkable public spaces.
Changes in shipping routes can end up altering the physical state of distant mountains, as well as creating other fallouts.
A spark may start a fire, but systems decide whether it becomes a disaster. The Swiss New Year’s blaze shows what happens when they fail.
Tolerance for the use of force in the conflict in Cameroon has undermined the appeal of dialogue and negotiations.
Anmatyerr people live 200 kilometres northwest of Alice Springs. The work of Anmatyerr artists is now on display in Switzerland for the first time.
Water availability regulates tree growth and can have ‘legacy effects’ long after conditions change.
Negotiating peace is not a matter of following a simple recipe; it rarely has well-defined stages.
Their victory in the European Court of Human Rights is a huge win for the climate.
The eastward shift in the Global Entrepreurship Monitor rankings over the past five years has been striking.
Dreaming differs across cultures, and these differences may hold the clue to how and why dreaming evolved for humans and other species.
Satellites can detect land moving by just a few millimetres, but we can never be sure exactly how or when a slope will slide.
Science works better when barriers to collaboration are removed, say experts.
A survey of nearly 900 politicians in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Canada reveals that they systematically overestimate their electorate’s conservatism on a range of issues.
On paper, the lush and wealthy city of Geneva is one of the capitals of human rights. Yet, one historian’s work points to a darker history few one want to see.
In the face of climate change, research shows it might be best not to put all one’s grapes in one basket.
A historian looks at the steps leading up to Finland joining the Western strategic alliance – and what that means for small nations elsewhere.
A recent French Senate report calling on a ban on alcohol use while hunting has prompted the wrath of the country’s hunting lobby. Do its arguments hold water?
Switzerland’s glaciers just lost 6% of their ice in a single year.
The U.S. is broken up into 50 states, plus territories like Puerto Rico and Guam, and a federal district, Washington, D.C. Most other countries have smaller parts too.
The Covid-19 pandemic raises the question of the precariousness of foreigners dependent on social assistance in Switzerland - a precariousness that is still growing.


















