The Mail & Guardian will celebrate a Decade of Greening in 2013.
Call by business leaders rekindle debate.
But several major signatories are refusing to expand emissions cuts when the agreement expires, writes Fiona Macleod.
Judges say without corporate support there would be chaos among communities
Court puts a spoke in producers’ wheel by agreeing that they are responsible for their products’ waste.
"Tiger Man" John Varty has suggested that breeders should defy the government’s trade ban and stage a high-profile global auction of horns.
Conservationists warn that the last stronghold of the endangered birds has been threatened by offshore oil and gas exploration near Port Elizabeth.
The drug is effective against resistant parasites and shows no adverse side effects, researchers say.
The Marikana stand-off will not be an isolated incident if South African mining companies continue to ignore their corporate social responsibilities.
The "macho culture" at platinum mines in North West is a major social ill behind the flare-up of violence that has left at least 10 people dead.
The birth control vaccine for elephants has been shown to be 95% effective and is far more preferable to culling, researchers say.
Concerned countries want a new phase of the protocol to kick in immediately after it expires, writes Fiona Macleod.
Pet owners in Asia are snapping up ‘pocket’ primates provided by traders in South Africa. Fiona Macleod reports
A plan to alert consumers to ecofriendly products has ended with the closure of a government agency, writes Fiona Macleod.
Even proof of the routes used between Botswana and South Africa has not alarmed the authorities, writes Fiona Macleod.
Fishermen believe the new ‘experimental’ permits are an ANC ploy to gain their votes. Fiona Macleod reports.
Struggle veterans and suburbanites have come together to save ancestral land from development. Fiona Macleod reports.
The United Nations has agreed at the Rio+20 conference to formally adopt a set of development goals, writes Fiona Macleod.
President Jacob Zuma’s office has been drawn into the fight to halt the proposed mining of the Wild Coast dunes, writes Fiona Macleod
The government has called in conservation’s "Mr Fix-it", former SANParks CEO Mavuso Msimang, to find a way to stop the unabated slaughter of rhinos.
A local group is drafting a legal framework for nature’s protection, writes Fiona Macleod.
An envisaged road to serve commercial interests in Northern Gauteng will destroy endangered frogs’ breeding ground environmentalists have said.
Ocearch says its work could help to save human lives in the sea.
The Land Claims court has ruled that government cannot be held responsible for paying up to R1-billion to expropriate a game reserve.
On the back of the illegal rhino horn trade, Asian suppliers have begun sourcing a replacement for tigers, namely lions or rather their bones.
The department of mineral resources has promised to streamline the system for public access to information after it initially didn’t comply.
Scientists have succeeded in including ‘planetary boundaries’ for Rio+20, the UN conference in Rio de Janeiro on the global green economy.
Mpumalanga’s rhino-farming tycoon, John Hume, says the best financial investment is to keep stockpiling rhino horn because the price keeps rising.
Anglo American’s eMalahleni water reclamation plant, was the only mining initiative to be endorsed by the United Nations at COP17.
South Africa’s green profile is high on the conference circuit, but research reveals a dismal environmental performance.
The Democratic Alliance in the Western Cape has been accused of using hunting permits to win votes, and this has affected the predator numbers.
South African National Parks CEO David Mabunda has hand delivered affidavits to <em>M&G</em> denying preferential tender procedure.