Environment

Exhausted firefighters said they had finally brought Australia's largest "megablaze" under control Monday, as wet weather promised to deliver much-needed respite...

Australia’s fires give us a glimpse of what’s coming

Article Agency - 11 Jan 2020

The government is reaffirming its commitment to coal. But as the crisis deepens, climate barbarism is no longer an option

Polluting power plant faces closure

Article Sipho Kings - 10 Jan 2020

The environment department has lost patience with Eskom’s defiance of air pollution regulations

Firestorms: How Australia’s bushfires created their own weather

Article Agency - 7 Jan 2020

During Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires in 2009, lightning strikes caused new fires up to 100 kilometres away from the original blaze

Farming in South Africa is under threat from climate change. Here’s how

Article Peter Johnston - 7 Jan 2020

The impact of climate change on agriculture and food production is clear: the sector will suffer. Here's what needs to be done

The decade that decides our fate

Article Sipho Kings - 20 Dec 2019

If we don’t do enough, in a decade’s time there’ll be droughts, floods, wildfires and crop failure on an apocalyptic scale

The good, the bad and the vegan

Article Annerine Snyman - 13 Dec 2019

There’s a global push for people to become vegans, or at least eat less meat, to reduce their carbon footprint

Slash emissions now or miss 1.5°C goal, UN warns

Article Patrick Galey & Marlowe Hood - 26 Nov 2019

The UNEP said that global emissions need to fall by 7.6%, each year, every year until 2030 to limit global temperature rises to 1.5°C

Planned fossil fuel output swamps Paris climate goals

Article Marlowe Hood - 20 Nov 2019

The 2015 Paris Agreement calls for blocking global warming at well below 2C, and 1.5C if possible

Mongolia’s new ‘cleaner’ fuel linked to deaths, illness

Article Khaliun Bayartsogt - 19 Nov 2019

The Mongolian government is trying to battle dangerous smog levels in one of the world's most polluted cities by trying to offer replacements for coal