New research has found that there are 50 000 more people with cholera across East Africa in each year that El Niño is around.
Control of increasingly scarce water is being used by armed groups to challenge central governments, causing untold suffering to civilians.
The world is warming at 170 times its natural rate, thanks to human action and carbon emissions.
The environment department can now stop initiatives that contribute to climate change.
A new coal-fired utility planned for Limpopo will contribute to global warming, and climate change will affect its ability to run efficiently.
The largest emitter of greenhouse gases in South Africa is Eskom’s fleet of coal-fired power stations, which make up half of national emissions.
The Arctic ice sheet is dwindling at a catastrophic rate, but researchers say building 10-million wind-powered pumps could save it.
Humanity is now living through the hottest period in over a hundred-thousand years.
While warm-blooded animals could adapt to changing temperatures because they regulate their own temperature, cold-blooded dinosaurs could not.
Reluctant to take real measures to stop global warming, countries have turned to quick-fix solutions.
Britain, Europe and the US are snuggling up to their carbon-emitting coal fires
Most countries cannot afford to keep species alive; they have to pay their own way. Human pressures and the changing climate indicate difficulties.
"Ice is shrinking at both ends of the planet, a development alarming scientists."
Soil carbon emissions aren’t calculated in the Paris Agreement on slowing climate change, which means we may not reach the 2˚C target.
Agreement on cutting CO2 emissions is a historic deal, and for the rest of Africa to get energy.
The diversity of measures being taken by 170 states is reflected in Marrakesh’s bottom-up approach.
Inadequate infrastructure and clogged storm water drains are costing lives as extreme weather patterns become more frequent.
President-elect Donald Trump’s stance on global warming spells trouble for the country’s carbon footprint.
The agreement will enter into force on Friday, signalling a true global effort to tackle the climate challenge.
The Republican feels restoring traditional industries will ‘make America great again’, while the Democrat envisions an environmentally-friendly US.
It is immensely encouraging that, less than a year after its adoption at the closing of COP21, the ratification of the Paris Agreement has taken place
Armed conflicts break out as a result of natural disasters, and societies with pre-existing factions are the most at risk of falling apart.
Earth blasts through more heat records, while research shows governments are not ambitious enough to stop catastrophic warming.
April has gone one further, with the most abrupt increase in temperature.
Home cookstoves are the second largest contributor to black carbon emissions globally, behind forest grassland and agricultural fires.
Rising temperatures would make the Hajj dangerous for people with health conditions, or those not at the peak of their physical ability.
The melting Arctic ice is forcing them to swim far further than usual to find food, causing a loss of body fat and threatening the lives of cubs.
Profound changes in weather means yields are lower, tea’s taste is altered and income is reduced.
Unless good governance is demanded by citizens, it will not be consistently supplied by authorities, write Yarik Turianskyi and Steven Gruzd.
We knew that 2017 was the year to put the brakes on activities that cause global warming, but we didn’t do enough – welcome to the future.
You might be tired of climate change phrases, doomsayers and so much hysteria and hyperbole it feels clichéd, but the planet’s not getting any cooler.
Evolutionary responses favour real-time threats, not those that take place on an extended timescale, writes Ruth Greenspan Bell.