The window to halt runaway climate change is closing fast this decade, with world-wide emissions cuts of 50% needed by 2020, and 90% by 2050.
The environment minister has cut funds to monitor climate change and contraventions, showing her tendency to collaborate with corporate power.
South Africa’s unwillingness to move from nuclear and coal power will lead to catastrophic climate change for the profit of a few, writes Sipho Kings.
As May and June were globally the hottest in recorded history, the UN’s climate change body latest report says humans are driving global warming.
Insurance claims and payouts are soaring as havoc wreaked by climate change in the form of violent storms, rain and hail continues to increase.
Global warming denialists once dined out on unscientific climate change studies, but consensus is now rising.
The science is in, and living in Cape Town and Durban will be impossible thanks to melting glaciers and an extra 4m rise in sea level.
A study has revealed that increasing levels of carbon dioxide could adversely affect the nutrition levels in some of our most important food crops.
As the "malaria belt" widens, research shows that changing climates may be a major challenge to SA’s ambitious plan to destroy the deadly disease.
The government must wake up and smell the roses before the stench of sulphur becomes overwhelming.
Greater public/private economic co-operation is needed for companies to deal with the fallout of climate change.
This is the stark warning of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, and our leaders must take heed.
Climate change is already affecting lives and will have catastrophic impacts if carbon emissions are not lowered now, warns the UN’s climate body.
The United Nations says that 13 of the 14 warmest years on record have occured since the turn of the new millennium.
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.
LTASs will help to inform key decisions on future development and adaptation planning.
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.