What is the Swiss media's position in the era of fake news and the omnipresence of social media? Fake News, such as the one about the controversial origin of the coronavirus, is accumulating and spreading like wildfire, especially through social media. In times of unreliable sources and false information, it is worthwhile to rely increasingly on Swiss news media in order to obtain truthful information.

In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned about the ice sheets melting away in Greenland and West Antarctica. A rise in sea level from four to six meters would be imminent. This could happen within the next centuries, perhaps even millennia. Now researchers from the NGO Climate Central predict in their newest November statement a rise of up to two meters in the year 2100 already. Estimated…

A project team from the University of Berne is working on a new edition of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s epic poem Parzival. The latest edition is almost two centuries old and no longer meets current requirements of textual criticism.