The effects of offshore gas projects contribute to a humanitarian crisis, and mainly only the companies and countries of the north benefit from the profits and commodities
Tackling climate change demands systematic change in our economic and development patterns, writes Rehana Dada
A district municipality in KwaZulu-Natal is implementing model adaptation practices to deal with climate change
Industry-driven policing through a proposed Peat Users’ Association is being mooted to ensure responsible peat mining and use in South Africa. Peat is a type of wetland soil that is high in organic content. Significantly, the vast mires (peat-forming wetlands) of the northern hemisphere hold about a third of the world’s soil carbon. But peat mining is alsp destroying precious wetlands and water resources.
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/ 17 January 2005
The case of global warming is instructive, particularly in the wake of Pretoria’s October 2004 climate-change policy, which promotes World Bank-designed "carbon trading". This approach endorses the idea of the right to pollute as a property right granted free to big business, which can then trade in pollution rather than reducing industrialised country emissions.
A team of South African and international scientists working in the Barberton area, Mpumalanga, has found evidence of microbial life as old as 3,5-billion years in volcanic glass. These glass-munching microbes can claim the title of ”oldest life on Earth” at 3,5-billion years of age.