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In recent years, research Wright and colleagues led has highlighted how prolonged heat exposure places outdoor workers, children, older people and low-income communities at increased risk of dehydration, heat stress, respiratory illness and other adverse health outcomes. The risks are expected to intensify as temperatures continue to rise. (Envato Elements)

Extreme heat is becoming Southern Africa’s defining climate and health threat, report warns

Extreme heat is no longer a future problem. A major new report warns it is intensifying inequality, illness and climate vulnerability across Southern Africa and the worst-hit are…

Sick system: Mabuti Mphafa pushes his gravely ill wife

Agriculture training in South Africa badly needs an overhaul

To stimulate innovation in the agriculture sector, education and training is in dire need of substantial reform.

Way forward for the humanities

Way forward for the humanities

The groundwork has been done and it is up to academics and institutions to come on board.

Death of humanities will mean ‘the dissolution of society’

Declining student enrolment and falling graduation rates are just two features that characterise the humanities crisis.

SA must hear calls for change in humanities

Two recently published reports have laid the groundwork for a white paper.

Waging war on Durban’s poison

Waging war on Durban’s poison

Making the transition to a low-carbon city should be seen as offering economic opportunities, not imposing burdens, says a major new scientific study.

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Overcoming gender myths in science

The Academy of Science of South Africa wants to demolish gender myths to attract more girls into science and related fields.

Hard choices over doctorates

To improve South Africa’s dismal PhD performance the government will have to navigate a minefield.