Air pollution in the Highveld Priority Area threatens lives and violates environmental rights, as hydrogen sulphide levels recently spiked over Johannesburg

People have been reporting strong sulphur odours causing headaches and eye irritation. The city is monitoring air quality while authorities investigate potential Highveld emissions

The Earth is getting hotter and extreme weather events are becoming more common. It’s bad news for all aspects of our lives

Activists say the deaths of vulnerable people is too high a price to pay for electricity when alternatives are available

The exemption will have a major effect on people’s health, say environmental justice groups

Shutting down Eskom’s coal plants and shifting to cleaner technologies will bring ‘cleaner air’ to the polluted Mpumalanga Highveld, says the utility’s environmental manager

Preliminary results show significantly elevated levels of hydrogen sulphide around the Irene monitoring station in Centurion on 7 June

Sasol has said the levels of sulphur dioxide and hydrogen sulphide were below the limits prescribed by its atmospheric emissions licences

The province may be in for a heavy stench as the winds blow in from Mpumalanga. The M&G looks back at the events that contributed to this state of affairs

Eskom alone spews more sulphur dioxide into the air than the entire combined power sector emissions of any country except for India

Environment department confirms it is inspecting Secunda, with the petrochemical plant operating under ‘stressed conditions’

Analysis of Nasa data shows that although SO₂ emissions around the world have fallen by about 6%, the levels are high enough to harm the health of billions of people.

Covid-19 brought clear skies when industries shut down, but then came what residents call waves of filthy air that made them sick

Eskom has said that it cannot afford to meet the legal levels and that some of its plants will need to run until the early 2030s.