After hours of hurricane-force winds and torrential rain, Puerto Ricans emerged from shelters to find that their island was still under threat from landslides, flash floods and crippled water and electricity systems.
In June Christiana Figueres, the UN’s former climate chief who helped broker the Paris agreement in 2015, warned that the world has “three years to safeguard our climate”.
The Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) is working hard to protect the last remaining locations in which the endangered Pickersgill’s Reed Frog (Hyperolius pickersgilli) can be found.
Recent hurricanes in the Caribbean and the United States and devastating floods across South Asia are a stark reminder of the horrors that climate change will unleash if left unchecked.
A group of just over 180 proud residents took to the streets of Joburg on Sunday, 17 September 2017 as part of a ‘Joburg City Clean-Up’ in the prelude to the 2nd annual FNB Joburg 10K City Run.
This international RAMSAR site and tourist hot spot is now under threat of ecological degradation amid plans to develop an extensive offshore aquaculture zone.
First Hurricane Irma blew through. Then the electricity went out. Pretty soon, 2000 gallons of raw sewage was spilling onto a quiet residential street in Edgewater, a town south of Daytona Beach.
A serious engineering study and report has dispelled the myths peddled by former Eskom CEOs Brian Molefe and Matshela Koko on the limits and costs of increased renewable energy capacity in the South African power grid.
The climate change conversation has matured significantly over the past decade, but have alleviation efforts grown fast enough to match the progression of the phenomena itself?
Hurricane Irma bore down on southern Florida on Sunday with 130 mile-per-hour (210 kph) winds, flooding Miami streets and knocking out power to more than 1.6 million homes and businesses.
The latest major health survey from Stats SA reveals that only 23 percent of South African toddlers are fed a diet considered to be adequate in terms of child nutrition.
Leaders of virtually every country who signed the COP21 climate agreement are expected to return to Paris in December – except Donald Trump. His absence is particularly alarming as America becomes the target of two of history’s most vicious back-to-back hurricanes.
The world's economy must urgently transition away from business as usual to avert catastrophic climate change, writes Christine Reddell of the Centre for Environmental Rights.
Covering nearly 1,500 kilometres of the South African coastline, the inaugural ‘Big Clean-up’ delivered a wave of change to our shores earlier this month.
A British company made millions this year selling a dangerous chemical linked to brain damage and premature death to a developing country, despite repeatedly stating it would stop.
Ghana Environmentalists are demanding that government immediately approves the more than five-year-old Timber Procurement Policy aimed at helping save the country’s forests.
The horrific damage wrought by Hurricane Harvey was an almost entirely man-made catastrophe, one fingerprinted by all-too-human neglect, corruption and denial.
As our climate continues to change, what we eat, where our food is grown, and how much we pay will certainly be affected. Let’s take a look at these threatened foods and the social and environmental impacts that surround them.
A month of severe monsoon rains, which peaked earlier this week, resulted in the deaths of at least 1, 200 people across India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, and left two thirds of Bangladesh underwater.
The Western Cape government has received the first tranche of the money it needs to cope with the devastating drought and fires in the province, Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Des van Rooyen said on Tuesday.
The oceans have become the world’s biggest rubbish dump – and Africa’s coastlines are under siege. It is now the world’s second most polluted continent.
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