Among the species now growing in Ticino are the bay laurel, camphor tree laurel, cherry laurel, thorny silverberry and Chinese fan palm. All are evergreens known until recently only in gardens and ...

Switzerland has strict zoning and construction laws. Federal land use planning laws (LAT) were first proposed in 1979. Since ...

Flavescence dorée, a dreaded grapevine disease among winegrowers, is spreading beyond cultivated vineyards. A joint study by the federal research institute WSL and Agroscope published in the Journal ...

Ticino is world-renowned today as a sunny palm-tree paradise for tourists. But much of the original music reflects another image of this region – one of tiny villages and valleys plagued by poverty.

Swiss mountaineer Filippo Sala established a new climb, solo, up the north face of Pizzo San Giacomo (2923) in Switzerland.