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NEWS ANALYSISThere won’t be a COP meeting next year. After two decades of negotiations, the world got its climate agreement at COP21 in...
"We have a major problem with DMR [the department of mineral resources] … there’s nothing we can do now to regulate mines,” said a...
Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has dismissed objections to the country building two new coal-fired power stations.
South Africa can cut its carbon emissions by a third and dent the progress of global warming. All it has to do is sign off on a local carbon tax....
Six people died in Gauteng last week as a result of the province’s flash floods. Some were trapped in cars; others were caught in rivers that had...
The department of mineral resources has ignored its own environmental unit’s warning of “unacceptable pollution” and has gone ahead and granted...
African countries with elephant populations are losing R343-million a year through poaching, according to new research. This is the direct cost of...
NEWS ANALYSISSouth Africa’s draft energy plan moves the country one step closer to a nuclear build. That will mean consumers paying more...
Gauteng’s most problematic sewage treatment plant has released millions of litres of untreated sewage into the Jukskei River.
About 300-million children live in parts of the world where the air quality is so poor that it is deemed to be toxic, and two billion children live...
Another day, another species wiped out. This time it’s Toughie, called the “loneliest frog on Earth” by a variety of groups all the way up to...
