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• - National research center for water pollution control. Interdisciplinary research, services and activities of the institute.
  
• - National information platform for the application of the Convention on Biological Diversity of Rio 1992. After an overview of the situation in Switzerland, the national action plan is presented, along with current events and activities. Includes national
  
• - Report. Introduction to the regional environment: geology, climate, hydrology, natural resources, landscape, population and political structure.
  
• - Project to obtain power and heat generation from deep enhanced geothermal systems. About hot dry rock technology and the project, including photos, maps, and diagrams.
  
• - Federal government agency responsible in the field. Features current projects, reports, and coordination activity.
  
• - Construction of radioelement and dose-rate baseline maps by combining ground and airborne radiometric data. [PDF]
  
• - Federal government agency active in the fields of water power, flood protection, hydrology, and geology. Overview of available hydro- and geological data.
  
• - Research institute focused on use, management and protection of terrestrial habitats and the management of natural hazards. The three departements are landscape, forest and natural hazards.
  
• - Seismographic map with events in the last 4 weeks by the Swiss Seismographic Institute.
  
• - A research and testing institute for thermal solar energy. Main specialties: collectors, systems, materials and software to calculate and optimize collector system properties. [German, English, French, Spanish, Italian]