Swiss citizens can now do away with tiny letter boxes in their houses. The Swiss Postal Service has tied up with an IT company that will scan the envelopes of all letters and e-mail them to clients for a fee. The clients can select the letters they want to read, and have them opened, scanned and e-mailed to them. They can also archive their scanned letters or ask for unopened letters to be
The Swiss authorities on Friday defended granting permission for the hunting of three wolves that have killed dozens of sheep after fierce criticism from environmentalists.
After centuries of praying for a local glacier to stop growing, Swiss villagers are now seeking an audience with Pope Benedict to get his blessing for prayers against the global warming that is causing it to recede.
The World Bank with the help of other development partners is going to conduct a study on costing of adaptation to climate change in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh is one of the seven developing countries where the WB is to carry out such studies in partnership with the governments of UK, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
The World Bank has launched a study on the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change in Bangladesh in partnership with the British, the Netherlands and Switzerland Governments.
The multinational lender also launched the study globally. Other than Bangladesh, this study will be carried out in Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Vietnam and Samoa.
Switzerland's glaciers shrank by 12 percent over the past decade, melting at their fastest rate due to rising temperatures and lighter snowfalls, a study by the Swiss university ETH showed Monday.
"The last decade was the worst decade that we have had in the last 150 years. We lost a lot of water," said Daniel Farinotti, research assistant at the ETH.
Wildlife traffickers are exploiting loopholes in the mechanism for the international trade of critically endangered wildlife species, thus making a windfall through the illegal cross-border movement of animals, Dawn has learnt.
Location of a gene active against rust diseases pinpointed COME winter and wheat plants might exhibit symptoms every farmer dreads. The leaves and stems show small orange to brown flecks that soon enlarge and spread. The infected parts mature and go from brown to black. Gradually the plant withers and dies. Farmers throughout the world know it as the rust disease. There are three kinds: leaf
