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Naked photo shoot on melting glacier A little skin for ice shrinking thin	Maywa Montenegro	20 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Saturday in Switzerland, hundreds posed naked for a photo shoot on the shrinking Aletsch glacier. Greenpeace said it hoped to "establish a symbolic relationship between the vulnerability of the melting glacier and the human body."
Topics: art, climate, climate change impacts, grassroots activism, Switzerland (all these topics)

That's One Way to Highlight Shrinkage Some 600 nudes pose on receding Swiss glacier		20 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
That's One Way to Highlight Shrinkage Some 600 nudes pose on receding Swiss glacier Giving climate-change awareness an infusion of sex appeal and highlighting the issue of glacial melt, Greenpeace teamed up with photographer Spencer Tunick over the weekend to bring together 600 volunteers for a nude photo shoot on Switzerland's Aletsch Glacier. "People posing on the glacier, it's like they show their vulnerab ...
Topics: climate change impacts, news, Switzerland (all these topics)

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Business leaders honed in on climate, carbon, and concrete at Davos	John Elkington, Mark Lee	09 Feb 2007	Full Disclosure
By John Elkington and Mark Lee 09 Feb 2007
Topics: business, climate, Full Disclosure, Switzerland (all these topics)

Diamonds Are Forever Swiss glacier to be wrapped up, saved for later		05 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Diamonds Are Forever Swiss glacier to be wrapped up, saved for later A Swiss ski resort worried about global warming's ill effects on its future is taking matters into its own mittened hands. At the ski season's end in May, the Andermatt resort will cover some 32,200 square feet of the Gurschen glacier with an insulating PVC foam in hopes of keeping its black diamonds from melting in ...
Topics: climate, environmental planning, news, outdoor recreation, Switzerland (all these topics)

Do You Ear What I Ear? Government kept mum about GM corn's mistaken identity		23 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Do You Ear What I Ear? Government kept mum about GM corn's mistaken identity Over a four-year period, Swiss biotech giant Syngenta AG inadvertently sold unapproved strains of genetically modified corn seed to U.S. farmers. The corporation claims the sales, which began in 2001, resulted from a case of mistaken identity between two genetically similar varieties of GM corn. Although the company reported the mistake to ...
Topics: GMOs, news, Switzerland, United States (all these topics)

Skiing Downhill Global Climate Change Could Spell End of Winter Sports Industry		03 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Skiing Downhill Global Climate Change Could Spell End of Winter Sports Industry Bad news for ski bums: As global climate change heats up the planet and pushes snow lines ever higher, many winter resorts in Europe might have to shut down. Less expensive, low-altitude destinations will be particularly hard hit, with some slopes in Italy, Austria, and Germany already suffering from la ...
Topics: climate, European Union, outdoor recreation, Switzerland, United Nations (all these topics)

Gone Today, Ear Tomorrow E.U. Poised to End Five-Year Ban on New GM Foods		17 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Gone Today, Ear Tomorrow E.U. Poised to End Five-Year Ban on New GM Foods A corn product developed by the Anglo-Swiss biotech company Syngenta will likely be approved for sale by the European Union next month, ending a five-year de facto ban on new genetically modified foods on the continent. A number of other GM product approvals are expected to follow. This may mollify the U.S., which has been fighting f ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs, Switzerland, United States (all these topics)

Swiss Miss		20 May 2003	Daily Grist
Swiss Miss In a closely watched referendum, Swiss citizens voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to keep nuclear power going strong in the country. Although Switzerland has abundant sources of hydroelectric power, voters rejected two initiatives on the ballot that would have phased out the nation's five nuclear power plants over the coming decades. Philippe de Rougemont, representative for an anti-nuke coalition, predicted ...
Topics: nuclear power, placemaking, Switzerland (all these topics)

7.7 Degrees of Separation		18 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
7.7 Degrees of Separation Two new studies on global climate change, both appearing in the latest issue of Nature, predict that the Earth will get even hotter by the end of the century than previously estimated by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. One study, from Switzerland, sees a 7.7 degree Fahrenheit increase by 2100; the other, from Great Britain, predicts as much as ...
Topics: climate, East Coast, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United Nations (all these topics)

What Sumatra You?		06 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
What Sumatra You? The Tesso Nilo forest on Sumatra, Indonesia, contains more biological diversity than the Amazon. It is home to elephants, tigers, gibbons, and tapirs, and a recent survey conducted by scientists from the World Wildlife Fund found as many as 218 vascular plant species in just 0.05 acres. But the entire forest could disappear in less than eight yea ...
Topics: G8, Indonesia, logging, Sumatra, Switzerland, wilderness, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

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