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Pedestrians hold umbrellas for protection from the sun during a heat wave in New York, US, on Thursday, July 27, 2023. Given that the Northern Hemisphere experienced unprecedented weather this past summer, South Africa should be on high alert this El Niño summer. (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

‘Global boiling’: July on track to be hottest month on record

Extreme weather has pounded three continents this month

Sheree Bega

Developing countries that are the most vulnerable to climate change are angry about a new text released at COP29 on Friday, which says developed countries must pay $250 billion a year until 2035 for climate action

Southern Africa ‘rapidly tracking towards climate disaster’

Global temperatures set to break records during next five years, warns World Meteorological Organisation

Sheree Bega

Determined: Climate change demonstrators from the environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion protest in central London, promising two weeks of disruption. (Tolga Akmen/AFP)

Covid may collapse climate talks

When crises strike then selfishness prevails, as Britain has done with its vaccine ‘red’ travel list

Sipho Kings

The cast of the film The Great Gatsby.

Great Scott! Another Fitzgerald story

A 8 000-word story by F Scott Fitzgerald has been discovered in the archives of Princeton University.

Alison Flood