Ice on the Rwenzori mountain range is melting at "disturbing" rates, and within two decades Africa’s equatorial peaks will be bare rock.
At a climate training conference in Johannesburg, former US vice-president Al Gore has given an overview of how humans are driving climate change.
New research from Wits University shows tropical storms are not becoming more frequent but they are moving south – resulting in increased rainfall.
The world’s top greenhouse gas emitters, China and the United States, have signed an agreement to work together to address climate change issues.
One reader finds the M&G’s Cabinet report cards useful, while another feels slighted after predicting Reeva Steenkamp’s death and the paper’s zodiacs.
US residents have shared some cool images of the Polar Vortex as subzero temperatures continue to arrest the country.
The award for Energy Savings in Households recognises and rewarsd people who have implemented innovative energy efficiency applications at home.
While South African companies lead the world in disclosing their carbon emissions, they are doing little to lower them.
UN climate talks ran deep into extra time as rich and poor nations butted heads over their contributions to staving off dangerous planet warming.
Could the vagaries of politics be behind the resurgence of board games?
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.
Rich developed countries remain reluctant to compensate poorer nations financially for devastation wrought by increasingly extreme weather phenomena.
Global warming is the chief suspect in the case of the ever-worsening, ever-deadlier typhoons.
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.
Taking the devastation wrought on their country as a warning, the Philippine delegation at COP19 has called for urgent progress on climate change.
An effective response to climate change depends on measures as comprehensive as the causes of what has been accepted as a global threat to life.
Climate Change Conference expected to determine the parameters of the global response to climate change beyond 2020.
LTASs will help to inform key decisions on future development and adaptation planning.
First-world financial and technical skills with home-grown know-how can help in the fight to ensure food and water security in sub-Saharan Africa.
South Africa lacks centralised system for tracking and counting the funds.
Off the coast of South Africa, ocean robots are sending back information to help us to understand how the climate is changing.
Government is looking into reviving the launch facilities at the Overberg Test Range for a possible collaboration with Nasa.
The gentle, plankton-eating giants seem reluctant to mate in water lacking the nutrients needed to support life.
The world’s oceans are becoming warmer and more acidic. This will lead to mass extinctions this century, even if carbon dioxide emissions are cut.
The latest International Panel on Climate Change report takes a look at a world where natural systems dramatically alter over the coming century.
An encouraging investment climate takes priority over good climate-change intentions.
A comprehensive investigation into the factors that influence our climate has shown humans are definitely causing temperatures to rise.
A UN report due for release in 2014 has added the colour purple as the highest level for global warming – increasing the threat to natural systems.
The food being wasted yearly adds to the earth’s carbon emission and means that large amounts of land is used to grow food that is not consumed.
South Africa’s proposed carbon tax of R120 a tonne can reduce poverty and inequality, write Oxfam’s Thembinkosi Dlamini and Rashmi Mistry.
The normal rate of adaptation of many animals is not fast enough for them to evolve and survive predicted temperature increases this century.