Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Check dams set up on the water from the Lonza river flows over the mud and stone, after the formation of a lake by the last houses ...

According to a new study, if we take immediate measures to reduce CO2 emissions, we could limit the rise in the temperature of Swiss rivers to 1°C between now and 2090 without drastically affecting ...

Some of Europe’s worst rivers once flowed through Switzerland. In the 1960s, many of its lakes and rivers were filled with algae, foamy scum, and even dead fish. The Aare and Limmat rivers, now ...

Some of Switzerland's best-known lakes are at their lowest level ever for August after a dry year so far in 2022, the environment ministry said on Wednesday. At the same time, discharge levels on the ...

Every year, 14,000 tons of plastic end up in Swiss soils and waters, in part in the form of microplastics: Particles in the micro to millimeter range. Microplastics comes from many sources, such as ...

GENEVA, Switzerland — A small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing through the debris, and the level of a newly created lake that raised ...