Country can’t lose sight of the threat climate change poses, President Ramaphosa says.
The government would do well to realise that these two disasters can’t be tackled separately
Pumping limited resources into a project that is predominantly meant to extend dirty coal energy in South Africa is not what local communities and the climate needs.
In its latest policy documents, the ANC is self-critical and wants ‘consequence management’, yet it’s letting its members off the hook again
The minister of environment, forestry and fisheries, likes to watch the British medical drama series Casualty, she tells Sheree Bega
The climate policies of both parties are constrained because they are far too wedded to the neoliberal economic systems
Researcher Els Vermeulen has a whale of a time conducting an annual aerial survey of the country’s southern right whales. But decreasing numbers reveal the depressing nature of this work
South Africa has not signed the Leader’s Pledge for Nature, despite the Earth’s interdependent crisis of biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation and climate change
World leaders must choose between life or death for humanity, say climate justice activists at 10th Desmond Tutu international peace lecture
Bioeconomy — using renewable biological resources — will allow Africa to transform its systems and create a viable economic future, global warming
The lack of detailed information on extreme heat impacts hinders disaster response and preparedness.
A better future for all South Africans is possible if we pursue a swift path to renewable energy
The Covid-19 pandemic provides a chance to reflect on, reimagine and reset the global economic system
Unlike the virus, there is no treatment for global warming except to immediately abandon economic activities that cause it
The new documentary on the future of our planet, executive produced by Michael Moore, fails on a number of fronts. But believers in green growth could still learn from it.
As Covid-19 upends life, it has taught us critical lessons and offers an opening to confront other crises. Political will is required, of course
The outbreak and the response to it is showing us that many things are possible, including the provision of water to waterless municipalities
During Cyclone Idai, responses were hampered by a shortage of reliable information. This has worrying implications for dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic
The party’s vision for Eskom seems to be one designed to benefit vested interests rather than the greater good
On a provincial level, programmes such as Gauteng’s The Innovation Hub are helping to create green economic growth
It seems that politicians aren’t paying attention to the floods, fires and droughts spinning our world out of control
Greening the financial system is essential, but the environment can’t be shoehorned into the logic of finance
About 25 years ago, Baldwyn Torto and his team taught themselves to talk to locusts. Now, Simon Allison brings you the story of the swarms eating their way across the continent
Global cooperation is essential if climate action is to be effective, amid the right-wing onslaught against multilateralism
The world needs a new deal to protect its natural environment
The new figure is in line with World Health Organisation estimates of 4.2 million deaths each year linked to ground-level air pollution, mostly from heart disease, stroke, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections in children
The Mail & Guardian and the Eugene Saldanha Memorial Fund, a project of CAF Southern Africa, are looking for a fellow to report on the climate crisis for a year.
Hundreds of Amazon employees Sunday openly criticised the online retail giant’s environmental record, in violation of the company’s communications policy. More than 300 signed a Medium blog post by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ), which is pushing the company to go further in its climate change mitigation plan which was announced with great publicity […]
The 50th meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) got under way in the ski resort with an avowed focus on climate change but with starkly different visions over global warming laid bare
YouTube has driven millions of viewers to climate denial videos, a US activist group said on Thursday as it called for stopping “free promotion of misinformation” at the platform. New York-based Avaaz said it scrutinised results of Google-owned YouTube searches using the terms “global warming,” “climate change,” and “climate manipulation” to see what was offered […]
Ocean temperatures last year were the hottest in recorded history, driving destructive weather around the world and pushing a rise in sea levels. This is according to research — titled Record-setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019 — published this week by a team of scientists from China and the United States in the peer-reviewed Advances […]
Exhausted firefighters said they had finally brought Australia’s largest “megablaze” under control Monday, as wet weather promised to deliver much-needed respite for countryside ravaged by bushfires. New South Wales firefighters said they finally had the upper hand in the fight against the vast Gospers Mountain fire on Sydney’s northwestern outskirts, which has been burning for […]