STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Europe’s highest human rights court ruled Tuesday that countries must better protect their people from the consequences of climate change, siding with a group of older Swiss ...

Climate change is causing trees to sprout earlier in spring. Nevertheless, some tree species are growing less. A study by the ...

London — Switzerland's alpine glaciers have lost 10% of their volume over the last two years alone, the Swiss Academy of Sciences reported Thursday, calling the sudden reduction clear evidence of the ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Switzerland hasn't shown that it's meeting the requirements of a landmark climate change decision from Europe’s highest human rights court, the Council of Europe ...

RHONE GLACIER, Switzerland — Climate change appears to be making some of Switzerland's vaunted glaciers look like Swiss cheese: full of holes. Matthias Huss of the glacier monitoring group GLAMOS ...

Swiss national climate projections suggested that Switzerland's warming is proceeding far faster than the world average, Swissinfo reported Tuesday. According to the report, the Earth's temperature ...

Switzerland’s lower house of Parliament is voting on Wednesday whether to reject an order by the European Court of Human Rights demanding the country step up efforts to fight climate change in what ...

Members of Swiss association Senior Women for Climate Protection react after the court ruled in their favor. Credit: FREDERICK FLORIN/AFP via Getty Images How George Wallace and Bull Connor Set the ...

On Tuesday, a historic day for climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that failure to take action against “one of the most pressing issues of our times” is a threat to human ...

Swiss seniors protesting outside the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday, March 29, 2023, as the court hears two cases demand more government action on climate change.

Switzerland will become drier and hotter, experience less snow and face heavier rainfall in the future. Those are the conclusions reached by climate researchers from its Federal Office of Meteorology ...

Switzerland's parliament defies European climate ruling, sparking debate on judicial activism and national sovereignty. Major ...