3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (834+ words) ALL HANDS ON DECK After hundreds of volunteers helped clean up the neglected beachfront park in July, residents and businesses are returning to Happy Valley for another community-led restoration effort on 19 September – this time for Tourism Month. Nelson Mandela Bay…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (554+ words) BRUSSELS, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The world just experienced its joint-hottest month since records began, with August pushing the planet's average global temperature to more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Thursday....

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1643+ words) PUMPING HEART OF AFRICA Conservation scientist Lee White reflects on four decades spent creating Gabon’s national parks, tackling illegal logging and confronting the failures of global carbon markets. Climate change will trigger wars over water across much of Africa unless…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1281+ words) South Africa produces enough food at the national level, yet millions still go hungry, skip meals or survive on inadequate and unhealthy diets because sufficient, nutritious food remains out of reach. The deeper problem is a food system in which…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (810+ words) Leon Basson is a member of the National Assembly and chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation. There is something deeply wrong with a country in which turning on a tap has become an act of uncertainty, while…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1213+ words) At least 176 people have been bitten by Cape fur seals during the marine rabies outbreak along the western and southern coast of South Africa. Scientists warn that the disease is now endemic to this species and fear that it could…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (813+ words) A hotter, drier summer could bring food insecurity, unsafe water, heat illness and infectious disease outbreaks. We cannot claim these consequences were unforeseen. Colleen Aldous is a clinical scientist, healthcare researcher and professor in the School of Clinical Medicine at…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (419+ words) Full restoration of pristine Cape Flats Sand Plain Fynbos in Lower Tokai might be achievable in 100 to 200 years. A more honest and achievable path is a dedicated Sand Plain Fynbos ‘garden.’ On 25 August, Daily Maverick published a piece by John…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (1217+ words) Dr Bool Smuts is the founder and general manager of the Landmark Foundation, a conservation NGO specialising in human-wildlife coexistence and conflict, and focused on leopard conservation. He is a leopard researcher and is a research affiliate at the University…...