IN the face of climate change and its far-reaching impact on agriculture and food security, Njabulo Mbokane, a 28-year-old crop farmer finds herself grappling with…
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"Today we harvest part of my plot. My onions sell for a very good price because they are of better quality than what is found on the market."
Experts are warning that overfishing and pollution of the oceans have depleted natural fish stocks alarmingly in South Africa. The result is that in the…
Integrated Regional Observation Carbon-Climate Constraints workshop aims to revolutionise carbon emission observations as 2030 deadline looms writes Mokgadi Mogy Mashako In a pioneering effort to…
Asbestos roofing was erected over millions of township houses across South Africa under the Apartheid government, despite expert findings that the material could cause deadly lung cancers.
The National Taxi Alliance (NTA) is of the view that this switch to a green public transport system in South Africa is a pipe dream that has more barriers than possibilities, unless a drastic changes occur.
Call for world leaders to guarantee climate change financing Mokgadi Mogy Mashako While climate adaptation policies that are currently in place indicate that global warming…
In East Africa, rainfall has been below average in four consecutive wet seasons, the longest in 40 years, with indications that the current season could also be dry. As a result of the persistent drought and other compounding factors, an estimated 18.4 to 19.3 million people faced food “Crisis” or worse levels of acute food insecurity before June 2022
While the world’s changing climate is taking a toll on basic city services, infrastructure, livelihoods and health, cities are also a large contributor to climate change. Cities consume almost 80 percent of the total energy produced globally and intake up to 70 percent of the world’s food supply.