Environment

Canoeist brothers clean up Khayelitsha wetland

Hours spent every week removing invasive water hyacinth and rubbish

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News | 24 August 2023

Shack dwellers look to renewable energy to power informal settlements

A group of organisations have created successful small projects, but now they want to aim bigger

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Brief | 15 August 2023

Big cats among victims as snare trapping spreads in Western Cape

Plan launched to deal with problem, which is partly driven by food insecurity

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News | 3 August 2023

Cheetah spotted in Djibouti for the first time in over 30 years

Team headed by Cape Town researcher makes exciting discovery during a biodiversity survey

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News | 3 August 2023

Piketberg landowners block mining company’s access

New salvo fired in decades-old opencast tungsten mine proposal

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News | 28 July 2023

In photos: new hope for West Coast vlei after seven year drought

But the future of this West Coast jewel is not yet assured, despite record rains this year

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News | 25 July 2023

Mining companies eye the last unspoilt strip of the Western Cape’s west coast

Concerns over cumulative impact of new prospecting

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News | 4 July 2023

Here people collect coal dust to cook and stay warm

“What is the use of being climate conscious because this duff coal is like gold to us”

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News | 26 June 2023

South African scientist hopes to head world’s most important climate change body

Debra Roberts is running for the position of chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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Interview | 19 June 2023

Climate activists disrupt Standard Bank AGM

About 200 people picketed at the bank’s head office to demand it stop investing in fossil fuels

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News | 12 June 2023

Hands off Antarctic, demand protesters

Door to the global fridge should be locked, say activists

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Brief | 5 June 2023

Petroleum bill is blind to the climate crisis

Petroleum resources development bill is “fatally flawed” and should be rejected, says the writer

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Opinion | 5 June 2023

Standoff between shack dwellers and sand mining company in Khayelitsha

Mining operations halted after families living in shacks near the site complain about sand filling their homes

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News | 30 May 2023

Limpopo learners keep tabs on river water quality

Project links academics, citizen scientists and learners to monitor borehole and river water

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Feature | 25 May 2023

Report raises alarm over state of provincial nature reserves

Protected areas critical to the country’s biodiversity and conservation efforts are being badly mismanaged, says the Endangered Wildlife Trust

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Opinion | 23 May 2023

Bulldozers clear way for mine in Lower Zambezi National Park

Tourism body warned that this would threaten species and actually lose money for the Zambian economy

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Feature | 22 May 2023