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How designing ‘green’ buildings can help to combat the climate crisis

Environment Sheree Bega - 30 Nov 2020

South Africa’s buildings account for 40% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. But the City of Johannesburg’s new draft green buildings policy aims to change that

Uphill battle but Tehran aims to become bike-friendly

Environment Amir Havasi - 28 Nov 2020

A new bike-sharing initiative in the Iranian capital is trying to ameliorate the city’s traffic and pollution problem

‘We struggle for water, but power stations and coal mines don’t’

Environment Sheree Bega - 26 Nov 2020

A proposed pipeline will bring water polluted with Gauteng’s sewage to the Waterberg in Limpopo to boost the coal industry during the climate crisis

Sharp sting of the Green Scorpions

Environment Sheree Bega - 22 Nov 2020

Crime busters secure a 97% conviction rate and register more criminal dockets for range of crimes

Artificially dimming the sun may reduce the risk of future droughts in Cape Town

Environment Sheree Bega - 21 Nov 2020

But it can't solve the climate crisis, say a team of scientists

Wake-up call for SA’s coal-dependent energy sector

Environment Sheree Bega - 19 Nov 2020

The government needs to invest in sustainable energy solutions to ensure economic recovery

Fossil fuel support lands SA in the G20 dog box

Environment Sheree Bega - 14 Nov 2020

South Africa has been ranked the second worst performer of the G20 non-OECD member countries, behind Saudi Arabia, for its lack of transparency and continued support for fossil production, fossil-fuel based power and consumption of fossil fuels

A grim future of extreme weather

Environment Sheree Bega - 14 Nov 2020

Unpredictable and unbearable heat waves, floods and rain set to wreak havoc in Africa

Carer swims for Bob the Green Turtle

Environment Sheree Bega - 13 Nov 2020

After being discovered with a belly full of plastic waste, Bob has become an ocean ambassador

South Africa’s coastal cities may lose their beaches

Environment Sheree Bega - 10 Nov 2020

Urban tourist magnets have nowhere to retreat to as sea levels rise with climate change

The corporatisation of food in South Africa

Environment Tshiamo Malatji - 9 Nov 2020

We can only end hunger when people have control over what they eat and how that food is produced

Locust pot is stirring in the Karoo

Environment Sheree Bega - 8 Nov 2020

There’s a new plague in town — and this time it’s biblical

Cape’s lively soil favours olive-oil toil

Environment Tshegofatso Mathe - 8 Nov 2020

The local industry makes less than 1% of the olive oil produced around the world every year, but the Western Cape’s climate is perfect for farmers

We need to dump our take-make-waste attitude to plastic

Environment Sheree Bega - 7 Nov 2020

A new report by the WWF says how plastic is produced and used must be fundamentally redesigned

South Africa wins Newton prize for ocean science and food security

Environment Heather Dugmore - 7 Nov 2020

The award recognises the essential contribution to research made by a team studying the Western Indian Ocean which faces an ecosystems and livelihoods disaster

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

Environment Sheree Bega - 6 Nov 2020

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 Sheree Bega - 5 Nov 2020

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

US formally quits Paris agreement as election hangs in balance

Environment Issam Ahmed - 4 Nov 2020

Environmentalists say Trump's announcement that he would withdraw from the Paris agreement three years ago made it easier for countries such Australia, Saudi Arabia and Brazil to weaken their own ambitions

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