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Polluting power plant faces closure

Article Sipho Kings - 10 Jan 2020

The environment department has lost patience with Eskom’s defiance of air pollution regulations

The decade that decides our fate

Article Sipho Kings - 20 Dec 2019

If we don’t do enough, in a decade’s time there’ll be droughts, floods, wildfires and crop failure on an apocalyptic scale

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Slice of life: Dumped: Popcorn, sex and gold

Article Sipho Kings - 29 Nov 2019

A look at what was once a landmark on Johannesburg’s horizon and central part of the Egoli story

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Opel Astra is an interesting enigma of a sports car

Article Sipho Kings - 5 Nov 2019

It took a bicycle ride in the heat to finally work out what the vehicle is all about

Glug, glug, glug – Sasol will sink us

Article Sipho Kings - 1 Nov 2019

The company cannot exist in the future. But this is a country where difficult decisions are rarely taken — especially when it comes to climate crisis

The horror: Tales of climate change

Article Sipho Kings - 25 Oct 2019

A year after the UN sounded the klaxon, warning of ‘some countries becoming dysfunctional’ thanks to the climate crisis, governments aren’t responding

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Our future is here: Empty taps, dry lands, thirsty power plants

Article Sipho Kings - 25 Oct 2019

Johannesburg uses 530-million more litres of water than it is allowed to – every single day

Inaccessible Island tells the plastic truth

Article Sipho Kings - 4 Oct 2019

The researchers say that an estimated 12.7-million tonnes of plastic ends up in our oceans every year

We’re killing off life, but there is hope

Article Sipho Kings - 3 Oct 2019

Sipho Kings reports on the findings of a mega government report on the state of our plants and animals, and what’s being done to secure their future

A good drive but far from stealthy

Article Sipho Kings - 2 Oct 2019

The Nissan Stealth does what it promises to do – and well. But it's hard to justify its diesel emissions if you're just a weekend warrior

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Stories from around the world will bring home the reality of the emergency

Article Sipho Kings - 27 Sep 2019

Afrobarometer research shows that 59% of people in South Africa do not know what climate change is

Responding to the climate crisis

Article Sipho Kings - 27 Sep 2019

Carbon emmissions continue to soar, but the urgency of the moment is driving change around the world

M&G joins global climate reporting network

Article Sipho Kings - 17 Sep 2019

The Mail & Guardian has joined one of the most ambitious reporting collaborations in history, joining 250 other newsrooms reporting the climate crisis

Nissan NP300 twin cab review

Article Sipho Kings - 14 Aug 2019

A brilliant, functional bakkie with an awful cabin. Buy it but don’t buy it new

Live in JHB, lose three years of life

Article Sipho Kings - 26 Jul 2019

The air in South Africa’s biggest city is the country’s most polluted, playing havoc with health, so move to Cape Town

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special reports - 23 Sep 2020

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