WWF survey shows few furniture companies know source of wood
GenevaLunch News Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - WWF Switzerland is urging that furniture manufacturers be obliged to declare the source of wood used in their products as rapidly as possible. A...
View ArticleCold suppers will rule on Préverenges beach
GenevaLunch News Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – 24 Heures describes the village of Préverenges in canton Vaud as a victim of its own success, or at least the success of its beach. The...
View ArticleWood could be 50% of Swiss renewable energy in 2025
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland’s forests are growing rather than shrinking, and they could provide as much as 50 percent of the country’s renewable sources of energy by...
View ArticleForests suffering from climate extremes, not heat, EPFL math shows
GenevaLunch News Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Mathematicians at EPFL, the Lausanne-based Polytechnic Institute, are giving forest guardians a helping hand in better understanding what is...
View ArticleDry spell continues: bush and forest fires dot Switzerland
GenevaLunch News Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A dozen bush fires have been sparked in canton Vaud in the past week, mostly started by negligence, from cigarette butts and cooking fires not put...
View ArticleSwiss wood harvest up 5%, better profits raise cost coverage
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – Wood harvests in 2010 were up 5 percent and, thanks to lower costs, profits rose overall, meaning that a larger part of forest maintenance costs in Switzerland were...
View ArticleHorns of a wood-burning dilemma: forest vs fine particles
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – More than 15 percent of fine particles, those minuscule bits of dust that are harmful to health, come from wood-burning stoves, the Swiss federal government now...
View ArticleDeadly Asian capricorn beetle discovered in Basel area
GenevaLunch News Quarantined beetle found in packaging from Asia; capable of killing forests in short order BASEL, SWITZERLAND – The Asian capricorn beetle, which is capable of destroying whole forests...
View ArticleZurich woods home to unfriendly ticks
GenevaLunch News ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Zurich is home to a tick that is now recognized as Switzerland’s third tick to carry a disease, neoehrlichiosis. To date three people are known to have fallen...
View Article“Swiss Climate Change 2013″ report shows warmer rivers, more mountain flora
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – The “Swiss Climate Change 2013″ report published Thursday 11 April, provides some clues to the impact of a warmer climate that can now be clearly observed. Changes...
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