25 000 elephants have been killed last year across Africa, and the numbers will grow, a continental conference on poaching has heard.
A report on greenhouse gas emissions says just 90 carbon emitters, some of which are South African, are reponsible for two-thirds of global emissions.
While South African companies lead the world in disclosing their carbon emissions, they are doing little to lower them.
The relentless poaching of rhino has been continuing with 1 000 set to be killed by the end of 2013.
The second-last day of the global climate change conference in Poland has seen 800 delegates walk out of the talks over a lack of progress.
This year’s global climate conference has increased pessimism about the future.
Conflicting laws for a mine in liquidation allow Blyvoor mine’s owners to dodge their responsibilities.
2013 is set to continue the trend of all the warmest years on record occuring after 1998, making it the seventh hottest year in recorded history.
Opinion is divided between those who think legalising the horn trade will save the animal and those who think the move will be ineffective.
Blyvooruitzicht’s residents have nowhere to turn while choking on dust from a slimes dam that belongs to the stricken gold mine.