Parts of Switzerland including the canton of Graubünden and the resort of Zermatt were hit by huge floods over the weekend which left buildings and roads destroyed. Here's the latest as two people remain missing.
Switzerland's upper house of parliament on Wednesday voted to spurn a landmark ruling by Europe's top rights court faulting the country for not doing enough to combat climate change.
The Swiss women's association Elders for Climate Protection secured a historic win Tuesday when Europe's top rights court faulted Switzerland for not doing enough to tackle global warming.
In a landmark decision, Europe's top rights court ruled that Switzerland was not doing enough to tackle climate change, condemning the country to pay a hefty fine. But will anything change?
Europe's top rights court ruled on Tuesday that Switzerland was failing to respect "right to private and family life" due to the government"s failure to do enough to tackle climate change.
Europe's top rights court will on Tuesday issue unprecedented verdicts in three separate cases on the responsibility of states in the face of global warming, rulings that could force governments to adopt more ambitious climate policies.
Countries in Europe need to prepare for a temperature rise of "at least 3C" and must do far more to step up readiness for the impact of global warming, the EU Commission has warned.
Switzerland should impose a 'super rich' inheritance to finance efforts against climate change, young Socialists said on Thursday as they presented the signatures needed to put the issue to a popular vote.
Austria, France, Germany, Poland and Switzerland announced their hottest Septembers on record on Friday, in a year
expected to be the warmest in human history as climate change accelerates.
Two consecutive years of extreme warming in the Alps have obliterated 10 percent of Swiss glacier volume -- the same
amount lost in the three decades prior to 1990, a report revealed Thursday.
Ski resorts in the Nordic countries and the French, Swiss and Austrian Alps might have a future by relying on artificial snow but even that is not sustainable, researchers say.
After more than a decade of cross-border tension, France and Switzerland will enter into negotiations about the River Rhône - which could lead to a drop in water level in Geneva's famous lake.
Mountaineers preparing to tackle Mont Blanc have been urged by local authorities to delay scaling the summit of western Europe's highest mountain because of a severe heatwave affecting France.
Climate activists who on Friday scaled down from a bridge in the heart of Basel, blocking oil tankers and other vessels on the Rhine for hours, have ended their operation, organisers said.
The remains of a German climber who has been missing since 1986 have been recovered on a glacier in the Swiss Alps, the Valais canton police said on Thursday.
More than 61,000 people died due to the heat during Europe's record-breaking summer last year, a study said on Monday which called for more to be done to protect against even deadlier heatwaves expected in the coming years.
Switzerland said on Monday that it experienced its hottest year on record in 2022, with its cherished Alpine glaciers melting at three times the rate previously considered extreme.
Europe should brace for more deadly heatwaves driven by climate change, according to a sweeping new report that said the world's fastest-warming continent was some 2.3 degrees Celsius hotter last year than in pre-industrial times.
The Swiss, feeling the impact of global warming on their rapidly melting glaciers, are expected Sunday to approve a new climate bill aimed at swiftly steering the country towards carbon neutrality.
Switzerland is particularly vulnerable to the impact of the climate crisis but the Swiss have so far failed to respond adequately to the growing emergency. Clare O’Dea looks at whether a breakthrough is finally on the cards.
Climate activists demonstrating against Europe's biggest private jets sales fair disrupted flights at Geneva Airport after chaining themselves to the planes on display.
Protesters on the tarmac at Geneva airport briefly disrupted air traffic Monday before operations were gradually resumed, the airport said, as dozens of climate activists blocked a nearby business jet convention.
This year is already shaping up to be another bad one for glaciers in the Swiss Alps, with the snowpack covering them around 30 percent below the 10-year average, according to the scientist tracking their decline.
Several thousand people crowded a Bern square Saturday to welcome four climate activists as they completed a 224-kilometre (140-mile) march across Switzerland to demand more ambitious
climate action.
