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Day Zero: Lessons for cities in Global South
For Cape Town to survive, it needs more than just a good technical approach to managing water
Mopane worms sound climate alert
The caterpillars are a vital source of protein and income but are being overharvested
COP in or COP-out?
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
Without measurable targets, how are we going to achieve our climate change goals?
The invisible refugee
The term “refugee” isn't one governments want to talk about in the context of climate change
Pseudo-science: warts and all
We've evolved to have the pattern-recognition software in our brains, even if it sometimes leads us to false conclusions.
Earth rising
Consider how radically an understanding of the heavens has changed; how we view ourselves and our place in the universe.
Foraging for a convertible
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
It's not often that a national monument gets to fast-track that awkward birds-'n-bees conversation.
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