Leonie Joubert

For Cape Town to survive, it needs more than just a good technical approach to managing water

The caterpillars are a vital source of protein and income but are being overharvested

Without measurable targets, how are we going to achieve our climate change goals?

Climate change negotiations are like a 17-year group effort to write a book. Will Durban close a chapter?

The term “refugee” isn’t one governments want to talk about in the context of climate change

We’ve evolved to have the pattern-recognition software in our brains, even if it sometimes leads us to false conclusions.

Consider how radically an understanding of the heavens has changed; how we view ourselves and our place in the universe.

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".

It’s not often that a national monument gets to fast-track that awkward birds-‘n-bees conversation.

Leonie Joubert chats to former provincial environment minister Tasneem Essop after her sudden departure from politics .

Give me a pearly white smile! There you go. Now consider this: the calcium in your teeth was cooked up inside a giant red star, billions of years ago.

Leonie Joubert to lucifer: You make it easier for us to live with ourselves. It’s easier to hold that an external agency paved the way for us.

I have decided to become a fairaeologist — one who studies fairies. I believe I see fairies. I’m sure they exist.

History probably does have a bit of a musty public persona — seemingly crusty, tweed-clad and whiffing faintly of mothballs.

The museum — small, intimate and in the very spot where it all took place — remembers the man, the remarkable history of heart transplant surgery.