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GENEVA (AP) — Voters in a southern Swiss region on Sunday rejected a plan to allow large solar parks on their sun-baked Alpine mountainsides as part of the federal government’s push to develop renewable energy sources. The rejection doesn't torpedo solar parks entirely if the private sector wants to develop them. At stake is up to 60% of financing for big solar parks. The federal energy department estimates that about 40 to 50 proposals for large solar parks have been made across the country. Overall, Swiss federal authorities have set a target of 2 billion GWh in new solar energy under legislation promoting development of solar energy, adopted in September 2022.

Persons: “ Organizations: GENEVA, — Voters, Swiss People's Party Locations: Swiss, Valais, Switzerland, Bern Oberland

CNN —Part of the summit of a mountain in the Austrian state of Tyrol has collapsed, sending more than 100,000 cubic meters of rock crashing into the valley below and triggering mudslides. The geologists have pinned the collapse on the thawing of permafrost, a long-term frozen layer of soil and rocks. When permafrost thaws it can have a destabilizing effect, said Marcia Phillips, permafrost research group leader at the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research in Switzerland. “Water can penetrate deep into rock masses through newly opened clefts, which were previously plugged with permafrost ice,” she told CNN, explaining that this can lead rocks to fracture. But, as human-caused climate change pushes up global temperatures, leading to thawing permafrost and melting snow and glaciers, rockfalls in this region look set to become more common.

Persons: ”, Thomas Figl, ” Figl, Marcia Phillips, Phillips, ” Phillips, Christian Gartmann, “ Organizations: CNN, WSL, for Snow, Avalanche Research Locations: Austrian, Tyrol, Fluchthorn, Switzerland, Austria, Alpine, Tyrolean, “, Swiss, Brienz, Graubünden, Davos

CNN —A Swiss village has been ordered to evacuate amid warnings a large mass of rock looming overhead could come tumbling down in the coming days. Leaders in Brienz held a town hall event on Tuesday evening and told residents they would have to leave by 6 pm local time on Friday. Rebecca Dell, a researcher at the University of Cambridge warns that climate change is driving glacier melt in the Alps. If a slope becomes too unstable, events such as rockslides may occur,” she told CNN. The village, which houses under 100 residents, according to Swiss public broadcaster SRF, is located in Switzerland’s eastern canton of Graubünden.

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În același timp, Brienz se confruntă și cu pericolul de a fi complet îngropat de o posibilă alunecare masivă de teren. Nu ar exista nicio modalitate de a opri o alunecare de teren majoră. Permafrostul se dezgheațăPe cel mai faimos vârf din Elveția, Matterhorn, cercetătorii încearcă să găsească răspuns exact la această întrebare. Așadar, poate „vocea” muntelui să anunțe o alunecare de teren? Încă nu, spune Jan Beutel.

Persons: Kurt Spring, Jan, Jan Beutel Organizations: Universitatea din Locations: Bolovani, Graubünden, Evolène, Valais, Elveția, Matterhorn, Universitatea din Innsbruck

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