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SA municipalities get high-resolution data to tackle climate hazards
Wits and Sanbi have launched fact sheets, helping local governments plan for a climate-stressed SA
Report: Climate change to reduce incomes, undermine food and water security, raise cost of living
Limiting greenhouse gas emissions and building resilience can improve the everyday lives and experiences of South Africans This content is restricted to registered users and…
Taken by storm: Why climate change makes transactional sex more common
Because it involves one partner who provides the other with a reward in exchange for sex, it’s not an equal power relationship
Climate change will force 113 million Africans to migrate by 2050
Most of this will happen within countries, with a second migration across borders taking place under extreme social or environmental conditions
People, nature will struggle to adapt to rise in global warming if emissions aren’t rapidly cut, says IPCC
The dangerous effects of climate change are occurring faster and will worsen sooner than previously predicted, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Climate says in its…
Africa needs climate adaptation finance
With funding we can turn an existential code red into a prosperous code green
Climate crisis causes meltdown of Africa’s three mountain glaciers
Mount Kenya, Mount Kilimanjaro and the Rwenzori mountains are all retreating faster than the global mean
‘Fingerprints of climate change are everywhere’
There’s still there hope that COP26 will deliver a powerful pact for action
Climate change a ‘collective trauma of potentially epic proportions’ for South Africa
The effects of global warming are negatively affecting mental well-being and will only accelerate in the future, according to a new report
Disaster preparedness can’t wait
But solutions can only be truly effective if funding and threat information reaches the local level