Travel alert: ice, snow, high winds forecast for next 24 hours
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The dose of winter that arrived in most parts of Switzerland over the weekend is about to be backed up by heavy snow in several areas, mixed at times with high...
View ArticleA weathery kind of week dampens Switzerland
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss national weather service, MeteoSwiss, said Wednesday morning 5 December that the storms of the past few days have brought a mix of winds, snow and rain...
View ArticleBuried garden treasures
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – There is no longer any doubt, winter is here to stay, and buried somewhere under a metre of fresh snow is my broccoli, that I was planning to stir-fry last...
View ArticleWeekend avalanches catch Swiss off-piste enthusiasts (update)
GenevaLunch News Dutch skier dies in Wengen Saturday GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 39-year-old Dutch skier died Saturday in Wengen while skiing off-piste, say Bern police. He and a friend left the Eiger...
View ArticleLandmark French case: psychiatrist sentenced over patient’s murder
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A psychiatrist in Marseilles has been given a one-year suspended sentence for manslaughter for an axe murder committed by her patient. The doctor was found guilty...
View ArticleWeekend weather, snow sports, 11-13 January 2013
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Despite the gloomy weather around the Lake Geneva area Friday, the weather forecast is for decent ski temperatures and some sunshine Saturday. Temperatures...
View ArticleWhile shepherds their sheep were watching, the wolf stayed away
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – A four-year old pilot volunteer shepherd’s aid programme run by the WWF to help de-fuse a fight over wolves in the Swiss Alps has come to a successful conclusion,...
View ArticleSwiss weekend weather and winter sports, 8-10 February 2013 – brrrrr!
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Be sure to take your gloves and hat when you step outside this weekend, with temperatures dipping in many areas in Switzerland. Alpine areas above 1,000 can...
View ArticleHalf of Swiss forests play protective role
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Half of all Swiss forests, and in Alpine areas 90 percent of them, play a critical role in protecting the population, according to an environmental report...
View ArticleAlpine light show for earlybirds
GenevaLunch News Dawn over the Rhone River valley and the peaks where cantons Valais, Uri, and Ticino meet Italy: a magnificent 5 March light show from 06:50 to 07:03 that dwindled down, two hours...
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