Celebrating recycling – one of the levers of the green economy
Recycling is rapidly emerging as one of the key drivers of business transformation globally. For South Africa, it has huge potential to help the...
More droughts are coming, and the Amazon can’t keep up: Study
Up to 50% of rainfall in the Amazon comes from the forest itself, as moisture is recycled from the trees to the atmosphere.In severe...
Fresh life is being breathed into Umgeni River as big business...
Just last month, videos of hundreds – possibly even thousands – of dead fish floating in the Umgeni River highlighted the extent of pollution...
Crocworld celebrates 10 years of frog conservation with September talk
The value of amphibians to the ecosystem is massive, playing a vital role as both predators and prey in the food chain. Despite this,...
Rare turtles hatch from eggs rescued from flood-prone Nepal riverbank
Conservationists in Nepal successfully rescued and hatched hundreds of Indian narrow-headed softshell turtles (Chitra indica) from a riverbank in Chitwan National Park.The nesting sites...
Big data monitoring tool aims to catch up to Indonesia’s booming...
A web-trawling tool developed by researchers in Indonesia has identified more than a quarter of a million songbirds in online listings from a single...
New Hike Launched with Green Corridors in Durban’s Maphepetheni area
Durban: As South Africa celebrates Tourism Month in September, Durban’s Green Corridors continues to offer ‘on-your-doorstep’ highly accessible excursions for the whole family, and...
The Western Cape has become an environmental disaster
The National Constitution states the following in Section 24:
(a) Everyone has the right to an environment that is not harmful to their health or...
EU votes to keep woody biomass as renewable energy, ignores climate...
Despite growing public opposition, the European Parliament voted this week not to declassify woody biomass as renewable energy. The forest biomass industry quickly declared...
Regulator approves first deep-sea mining test, surprising observers
The International Seabed Authority (ISA), the intergovernmental body responsible for overseeing deep-sea mining operations and for protecting the ocean, recently granted approval for a...
Zero-deforestation commitments ‘fundamentally limited’ in tackling deforestation, study argues
Researchers found that while 90-99% of tropical deforestation in 2011-2015 was driven by agricultural industries, only 45-65% of the cleared land was actually used...
Can we build a carbon market that values nature and rewards...
A new form of conservation finance fuses community, wildlife, and nature with the voluntary carbon market, which funnels “global north” money into “global south”...
