Research out this week shows that the recent temperature record-breaking years are caused by human endeavours that drive global warming.
The rate of rhino poaching has dramatically slowed, with fewer animals killed in this year than in 2014.
The margin by which 2015 beat the previous year has been flagged by three weather agencies as cause for great concern.
Crops should be in the ground and white maize starting to germinate. But only half the national crop has been planted and less than that will survive.
Our metros are killing us. Poor planning means that the heat islands trap air pollution – but SA’s cities think about ways to bring temperatures down.
South Africans must change their attitude to water and see it as a resource critical for social and economic growth, not as a service to be rolled out
The Paris Agreement is weak, but it puts countries on the same trajectory and gives the world a chance to avoid catastrophic global warming
Data from the UK Meteorological Office shows that 2015 will surpass last year as the hottest year on record.
Paris talks failed the most vulnerable, but that failure could be fixed as the world’s governments have at least agreed to head in the same direction.
Another year, another reshuffle, Jacob Zuma may have thought. But he was wrong: Something snapped on Wednesday night after the axing of Nhlanhla Nene.