Latest articles on Leonie Joubert

Day Zero: Lessons for cities in Global South

Article Gina Ziervogel & Leonie Joubert - 26 Jul 2019

For Cape Town to survive, it needs more than just a good technical approach to managing water

Mopane worms sound climate alert

Africa Leonie Joubert - 4 May 2018

The caterpillars are a vital source of protein and income but are being overharvested

COP in or COP-out?

Article Leonie Joubert - 25 Feb 2011

Climate change negotiations are like a 17-year group effort to write a book. Will Durban close a chapter?

Green paper is short on detail

Article Leonie Joubert - 25 Feb 2011

Without measurable targets, how are we going to achieve our climate change goals?

The invisible refugee

Article Staff Reporter - 15 Sep 2009

The term “refugee” isn't one governments want to talk about in the context of climate change

Pseudo-science: warts and all

Article Staff Reporter - 7 May 2009

We've evolved to have the pattern-recognition software in our brains, even if it sometimes leads us to false conclusions.

Earth rising

Article Staff Reporter - 3 Feb 2009

Consider how radically an understanding of the heavens has changed; how we view ourselves and our place in the universe.

Foraging for a convertible

Article Staff Reporter - 16 Dec 2008

Ten years after emigrating to the Mother City from the Eastern Cape, I still can't quite get used to the gulf between the "haves" and the "have nots".

My cousin’s a chimpanzee

Article Staff Reporter - 9 Oct 2008

It's not often that a national monument gets to fast-track that awkward birds-'n-bees conversation.

Essop’s climate change

Article Staff Reporter - 8 Oct 2008

Leonie Joubert chats to former provincial environment minister Tasneem Essop after her sudden departure from politics .

Stuff that matters

Article Staff Reporter - 23 Sep 2008

Give me a pearly white smile! There you go. Now consider this: the calcium in your teeth was cooked up inside a giant red star, billions of years ago.

Sipping tea with the devil

Article Staff Reporter - 9 Sep 2008

Leonie Joubert to lucifer: You make it easier for us to live with ourselves. It's easier to hold that an external agency paved the way for us.

The immovable power of flimflam

Article Staff Reporter - 30 Jul 2008

I have decided to become a fairaeologist -- one who studies fairies. I believe I see fairies. I'm sure they exist.

Dusting off yesterday

Article Staff Reporter - 17 Jul 2008

History probably does have a bit of a musty public persona -- seemingly crusty, tweed-clad and whiffing faintly of mothballs.

Memories of a human heart

Article Staff Reporter - 3 Jul 2008

The museum -- small, intimate and in the very spot where it all took place -- remembers the man, the remarkable history of heart transplant surgery.

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