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Seoul’s Cheonggyecheon stream combines a restored urban stream with pedestrian paths, stepped seating and bridges along a major downtown corridor. (Luna Khirfan)

Many cities buried urban streams. Here’s how to bring them back

Stream daylighting can help manage stormwater, restore habitats and create greener, more walkable public spaces.
Glaciers in the Swiss alps are experiencing rapid melt due to climate change. Manuel Wild/Shutterstock

Strait of Hormuz: why even neutral and distant countries like Switzerland can’t escape the fallout

Changes in shipping routes can end up altering the physical state of distant mountains, as well as creating other fallouts.
People light candles outside Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, on Jan. 3, 2026, where a devastating fire left many people dead and injured during the New Year’s celebrations. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

What the New Year’s fire at a Swiss bar tells us about fire prevention

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.
Trees killed by drought and an outbreak of bark beetles in California’s Tahoe National Forest in 2023. AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez

Trees ‘remember’ wetter times − never having known abundant rain could buffer today’s young forests against climate change

Water availability regulates tree growth and can have ‘legacy effects’ long after conditions change.
Genève, exposition Nationale, le “Village Noir” dans le parc de Plaisance Antoine Elie Chevalley, photographe

Dehumanisation, animalisation: inside the terrible world of Swiss human zoos

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.
A hunter in France takes aim on 21 August 2021. The consumption of alcohol or drugs during hunting makes the practice dangerous even for hunters themselves. Pascal Pochard Casabian/AFP

In France, the tough debate about hunting and alcohol

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?
There are so many different states – and provinces, districts, regions and lander! Getty Images

How many states and provinces are in the world?

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.

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