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Lessons: South Africa’s seas can aid its development if a sustainable, inclusive approach that considers people and the environment is taken, rather than the extractive route. Photos: Brenton Geach/Getty Images

SA’s blue economy must shift to a just direction

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The second giant squid to wash up on Western Cape beaches in two years was cut into chunks before it could be removed for observation. (Photos: Ali Paulus)

Kommetjie’s giant squid evokes mysteries of the deep

The second giant squid to wash up on Western Cape beaches in two years was cut into chunks before it could be removed for observation.

Overuse: The Lokoli Forest in Benin, where 40% of the population live in poverty, is under threat: Photo: Yanick Folly/AFP/Getty Images

Carbon offset is greenwashing, critics say

A marine conservation funding facility wants carbon trading to finance restoration and protection of the oceans and marine biodiversity

The art of science: Children from the Boesmanland High School in
Pofadder in the Northern Cape explore the Dung Beetle sculpture that
turns waste plastic into fuel.

‘Dung Beetle’ turns tech into art and plastic into fuel

Real dung beetles make waste useful and this steel sculpture does the same for plastic

Environmental Affairs Minister Barbara Creecy. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Creecy okays drilling off KwaZulu-Natal coast

Despite dozens of appeals, the South African government is determined to give Sasol and its partners the go-ahead. But activists will not stop the fight

Big deal for all concerned as small fry vanish

​Krill are the small fry of the oceans, the bottom of the food chain

In Australia, Europe and the US, many of those collecting plastic and other recyclables were left scrambling to find new places to send it. (Sebastian Kennerknecht/AFP)

Everyday plastics emit greenhouse gases, study reveals

‘Plastic represents a source of climate-relevant trace gases that is expected to increase as more plastic is produced”

‘I just speak a lot of bollocks’

Daniel Friedman speaks to the world-famous stand-up comedian Eddie Izzard about cross-dressing for success, religion and being a smarty pants.