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Why is the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow important? What is being discussed? Where does Switzerland stand?

Switzerland’s MCH Group is the latest heavyweight company to be hit by hackers as a rash of attacks spreads across the Alpine nation.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - One of the worlds last two northern white rhinos, a mother and her daughter, is being retired from a breeding programme aimed at saving the species from extinction, scientists said on Thursday. Najin, 32, is the mother of Fatu who is now the only donor left in the programme, which aims to implant artificially developed embryos into another more abundant species of rhino in Kenya. There are no known living males and neither of the two remaining northern white rhinos can carry ...

Although raising gender awareness has been discussed for decades, few medical schools around the world have put initiatives into practice.

By Ueslei Marcelino XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil (Reuters) - When a big chief dies on the Xingu indigenous reservation, its tribes gather for a unique funeral ritual called the Kuarup. Wearing body paint and bird feathers, they join in ceremonial dances, combat and feasts to celebrate life, death and rebirth. The loss of Chief Aritana of the Yawalapiti people to COVID-19 in August has shaken the Xingu, leaving its tribes without a strong leader and able negotiator to unite them against mounting...

Swiss glaciers lost 1% of their volume in 2021, despite a snowy winter and cool summer.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Tuesday that a reported hypersonic weapon test by China breached none of Beijings international obligations, posed no threat to Russia and followed similar moves by the United States. ...China is developing its arms systems within the framework of its international obligations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. In no way does Russia (itself) break its obligations with regards to arms control and we only take measures aimed at ensuring our own ...

By Lisi Niesner JAMTALFERNER GLACIER, Austria (Reuters) - Scientists are venturing inside otherworldly ice caves growing beneath Austrias doomed glaciers to study why they are melting even faster than expected, and understand the fate that will befall glaciers elsewhere if climate change is not halted. It is already too late to save the glaciers of the eastern Alps, which scientists now say are past the point of no return and will be gone completely in the next few decades. The eerie blue cavern...

By Shadia Nasralla and Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) - More than 190 countries committed in 2015 to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels in an effort to stave off the worst effects of climate change such as drought, flooding and loss of species. Scientists say bringing global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to net zero by 2050 is the way to meet the central goal of the Paris Agreement, although it was left to individual states to work out how to achieve wh...

Swiss Youth for Climate (SYFC) wants to see a clear commitment to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees at the upcoming COP26 climate talks.