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Barbara Creecy: ‘You can make a difference if you want to’

Environment -
The minister of environment, forestry and fisheries, likes to watch the British medical drama series Casualty, she tells Sheree Bega

Saving the world’s most trafficked mammal

Environment -
Covid-19 has led to a surge in local pangolin poaching cases, but saviours keep fighting.

‘Beat the heat with cool zones’

Environment -
Temperatures being recorded in some parts of South Africa are already close to the limits at which humans can survive

How to escape the ‘era of pandemics’

Coronavirus -
Any of 850 000 viruses could cause the next global crisis. Experts say we should focus on prevention

Air pollution link in 15% of global Covid-19 deaths

Coronavirus -
Researchers have found that, because ambient fine particulate air pollution aggravates comorbidities, it could play a factor in coronavirus fatalities

Dirty air kills 476 000 newborns

Environment -
In 2019, two-thirds of infant deaths caused by pollution were in sub-Saharan Africa

Ghost fishing gear an ‘immortal menace’ in oceans

Environment -
Lost and illegal tackle is threatening marine life and the lives of people making a living from the sea

Gas: South Africa’s next ‘battleground’

Environment -
As government pushes for a huge increase in electricity generation from gas, serious questions are being raised about the logic behind the move

Seals abort pups in mass die-off

Environment -
There are a number of factors — a pollutant, virus or bacteria or malnutrition — that may have caused the 12 000 deaths on Namibia’s coast.

Dust erosion harms SA’s food bowl

Environment -
If micronutrients are blown away and the soil dries, the Free State maize crop is threatened

Benefits of red meat ignored in shift towards plant-based diets

Environment -
The World Wide Fund for Nature says change needs to happen to halt the negative effects of livestock production on biodiversity and climate

‘People the same as pigs’ in the Vaal

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The water and sanitation department has taken over the clean-up project while sewage continues to pollute the Vaal River and Emfuleni municipality
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