The Best Places to Visit in Switzerland All Year Round
For every charming chalet-filled village, there’s a contemporary city center full of Michelin-starred cuisine and luxury ...
Heimatort, Sweet Heimatort: The Unique Swiss Concept Of Home
Place of birth” is a requirement in almost every passport around the world. Not in Switzerland. Swiss passports and ID cards care only about your“p ...
Glaciers — no frozen relics but the pulse of earth’s water system
The declaration of the World Day for Glaciers, on March 21, is a global call to action as protecting glaciers is protecting ...
Al Jazeera on MSN6d
Swallowed by the sea, Pakistan’s Indus delta now threatened by canals
Residents say construction of six new canals over Indus River will turn more lands barren and prone to be lost to sea.
The Art Newspaper5d
An artist's intimate portrait of a dying glacier
Ohan Breiding’s experimental film and photography, on view at Mass Moca, pay homage to the disappearing Rhône Glacier in ...
The ski spot with 82km runs, delicious food and breath-taking views – a ‘holiday to remember for years’
OUR first family ski trip was planned in the weeks before Christmas, mainly by our three-year-old.  Caught up in the festive ...
The Chinese assembly-line artists who copy van Gogh's sunflowers
Products that are seen as forgeries in the West are seen as «re-creations» in China, where the culture does not condemn ...
The New Yorker2d
The Resurrection of a Lost Yiddish Novel
At the end of the twentieth century, Chaim Grade preserved the memory of a Jewish tradition besieged by the forces of ...
The Kathmandu Post3d
Saving lives and infrastructures as glaciers melt
In all cases, it’s important to leverage local knowledge and actively involve the affected communities. As the Thame glacial lake flooding incident demonstrated, local knowledge is vital to saving ...