LOCAL South Africa has congratulated the Egyptian COP27 Presidency on the release of the draft outcomes text to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It reflects the urgency of the climate crisis and the need to keep the one point five degree temperature increase target alive by providing[…]
INTERNATIONAL The company responsible for the UAE‘s palm tree-shaped Palm Islands is set to develop several new, man-made islands amid the city’s housing boom. Dubai-based property developer Nakheel PJSC said it had secured 17 billion dirhams ($4.6bn) in financing from local investors, with plans to create new projects, including the development of[…]
The City of Cape Town marks World Environment Day on Sunday by announcing it has dealt with more than 8000 environmental health complaints last year. With World Environmental Health Day commemorated annually on 26 September, the focus this year was to assess and control environmental factors that can potentially affect[…]
INTERNATIONAL In a stinging report, Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday accused the Egyptian government of “severely curtailing” the rights of environmental groups in the country and their ability to carry out their work of protecting the natural environment. “The Egyptian government has imposed arbitrary funding, research, and registration obstacles that have[…]
by Tauhierah Salie It’s very hard to change the mindsets of people, but the more constant we are in terms of education and awareness; we CAN start changing the mindsets of our communities. And that is why we (are) do things such as community cleanups – Margo Adonis, Visions of[…]
The average size of wildlife populations has plummeted more than two-thirds in less than 50 years because of deforestation and rampant overconsumption, experts said on Thursday in a stark warning to save nature in order to save ourselves. Human activity has severely degraded three-quarters of all land and 40 percent[…]
After lengthy negotiations, delegations from nearly 200 countries at the COP25 climate summit have reached an agreement on stepping up the global response to cutting greenhouse gas emissions. However, negotiators on Sunday stalled on an agreement on the regulation of carbon markets, one of the most critical and contentious issues at[…]
Residents in parts of eastern Australia abandoned their homes on Tuesday as soaring temperatures and strong winds threatened to fan bushfires in a giant blaze north of Sydney, the country’s biggest city. Air quality in parts of Sydney plunged as the city awoke on Tuesday to another thick blanket of smoke, disrupting[…]
Parisian mushrooms are reclaiming their space in the dark spaces under the City of Light. “When cars arrived in Paris in the 1930s they pushed out “champignons de Paris” (known in English as button mushrooms),” explains Jean-Noel Gertz, CEO of Cycloponics, the start-up that has transformed an abandoned car park into[…]
The bio-brick, which was hailed for being a forward-thinking solution to using human waste to highlight sustainable change made by the University of Cape Town (UCT), is now being exhibited as a showpiece at the MAK Design Lab in the Austrian Museum for Applied Arts/Contemporary Art in Vienna. The museum focuses on[…]
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