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Leonie Joubert works from Cape Town. Science writer: political-economy of climate change, the hunger-obesity poverty-paradox in cities, mental health Leonie Joubert has over 1355 followers on Twitter.
For Cape Town to survive, it needs more than just a good technical approach to managing water
In Namibia, the national government has piped water to many remote villages and put them in charge of distribution and payment
The caterpillars are a vital source of protein and income but are being overharvested
Understanding why farmers in Southern Africa are reluctant to cash in their investment is key to mitigating the effects of climate change
Spending on catchment areas provides solutions to the problems of water supply and demand, write Kristal Maze and Leonie Joubert.
Without measurable targets, how are we going to achieve our climate change goals?
Climate change negotiations are like a 17-year group effort to write a book. Will Durban close a chapter?
The term “refugee” isn’t one governments want to talk about in the context of climate change
There’s something incongruous about the fact that Denmark is hosting this year’s United Nations Climate Summit in December.
We’ve evolved to have the pattern-recognition software in our brains, even if it sometimes leads us to false conclusions.
As long as two-wheelers have to share the road with four-wheelers, it’s clear who will come off second best.
Darwin showed how natural forces explain the origins of life. This was not a world that needed a divine sculptor.
Alternative medicine: What’s the harm in a bit of placebo effect, dressed up as a legitimate remedy?
Consider how radically an understanding of the heavens has changed; how we view ourselves and our place in the universe.
The artisans of the world have got the rest of us by the balls, from plumbers to tilers to electricians.
Ten years after emigrating to the Mother City from the Eastern Cape, I still can’t quite get used to the gulf between the "haves" and the "have nots".
Bottom line is: We’ve changed the world around us, sometimes disastrously and irreparably. Someone has to take responsibility for the mess we’ve made.
There’s a dove outside the window. Crwoooo… Or is it a pigeon? I never can tell.
It’s not often that a national monument gets to fast-track that awkward birds-‘n-bees conversation.
Leonie Joubert chats to former provincial environment minister Tasneem Essop after her sudden departure from politics .
