Researchers say dung beetles climb onto their dung balls to cool their feet in the midday sun.
Cape Town is revising a pioneering programme that was meant to maintain and keep toilets clean and provide jobs.
Fifteen thousand South Africans are dying every year because of an economy based on burning fossil fuels.
Struggle stalwart, businessperson and former journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu died on Thursday morning.
For the 10% of South Africans that do not have access to piped water, diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases are life-threatening.
The mining must go ahead. Its pincers are tearing into a community that happens to live on top of land that holds precious minerals.
A new strain of drug-resistant bacteria has made landfall in South Africa.
China has agreed to work with the EU to create its own carbon trading system. This will create a large pool of funding for sustainable development.
In commemorating the 35th anniversary of the death of Steve Biko it is time to return to the politics of respect, consciousness and participation.
Despite severe criticism from environmentalists, the state is punting shale gas as a greener way to secure South Africa’s future electricity supply.
Global climate talks are edging closer to finalising mechanisms that will steer funding to developing countries to grow low-carbon economies.
With food prices already soaring around the world, the future looks bleak for SA, too, as the price of staple foods could more than double by 2030.
DNA data, tracker dogs, choppers – the Kruger National Park has pulled out all the stops to save its rhino, writes Sipho Kings.
Carolina in Mpumalanga has become a test case for what is wrong with water governance in South Africa, writes Sipho Kings.
Residents say although the water is clear and tastes normal at first, it smells like bleach and leaves a sandy aftertaste. Sipho Kings reports.
Businessman Lew Campbell has bought the Tiffindell Ski Resort at an auction and hopes to have it running again by 2013.
The Sterkfontein Caves have revealed another ancient ancestor, confirming South Africa as the home of humanity, writes Sipho Kings McDermott.
It started out with a bang, but land deals went sour and farms lie barren as the project stalls, writes Sipho Kings.
Snapped up for a song on auction, the Tiffindell ski resort could be up and running again by 2014. Sipho Kings reports.
A court has ordered municipal authorities in Carolina to provide temporary water to residents who have now gone seven months without clean water.
Residents of Tiffindell Ski Resort in the Drakensberg say any new owners have to include the community if they want to succeed, writes Sipho Kings.
With its huge reliance on water and agriculture, Woolworths is vulnerable to any shocks in the supply chain.
Future water availability is one of the biggest threats facing people and business in South Africa.
Endless global conferences with progressively weakening outcomes are lessening hope that global temperature increases can be reined in at 2C.
Residents of a Carolina in Mpumalanga are taking the government to court after six months of waiting for their municipal water supply to be cleaned.
The global aim is to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, which are largely the result of burning fossil fuels.
The Rio+20 conference, like its predecessors, will betray the poorest people on the planet the most, writes Sipho Kings.
The Rio+20 text leaves one with little hope that a solution to saving the environment will be agreed upon, writes Sipho Kings.
The education programmes that should support young people’s quest for knowledge about sex are struggling, mainly due to teachers’ conservatism.
Consumer choice drives production and capitalism and colour-coding is changing demand patterns and the species caught, writes Sipho Kigs.
As SA focuses on pro-poor growth and job creation, tens of thousands of new posts in the booming green economy are being filled by young job-seekers.
The impact of water scarcity on crop farming will soon be one of SA’s biggest problems. We may need to look beyond our borders for a solution.