Eco home up for grabs at Green Expo
Cape Town – The second Green Expo will take place in Cape Town at the Cape Town Convention Centre with 10 000 people expected to attend. People who attend the expo standRead More…
Cape Town – The second Green Expo will take place in Cape Town at the Cape Town Convention Centre with 10 000 people expected to attend. People who attend the expo standRead More…
San Francisco – California sold out of the first pollution permits issued as part of a landmark offensive against greenhouse gases at an inaugural auction that regulators said went smoothly. The effortRead More…
Johannesburg – South Africa does not have a water crisis because the country still has many options, a senior official said on Tuesday. “These options must be realised as potential options,” saidRead More…
Washington – All nations will suffer the effects of a warmer world, but it is the world’s poorest countries that will be hit hardest by food shortages, rising sea levels, cyclones andRead More…
Sydney – Australia banned super trawlers fishing in its southern waters for two years on Monday, saying there was uncertainty about the impact of such large vessels on species such as dolphinsRead More…
St Austell – The tropical tranquillity beneath the striking domes of Britain’s Eden Project, paid for with EU cash, is a sweet-scented haven from the bitter political row over the bloc’s budget.Read More…
Vision researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute have made a groundbreaking discovery into the optimization of light sources to human vision. By tuning lighting devices to work more efficiently with the human brainRead More…
Quito – The unique bird and reptile species that make the Galapagos Islands a treasure for scientists and tourists must be preserved, Ecuadorean authorities say – and that means the rats mustRead More…
Manila – Fishing vessels registered in the Philippines, Indonesia and Cambodia have been filmed “laundering” illegally caught tuna, environment activist group Greenpeace International said on Thursday. Greenpeace said it recorded the transferringRead More…
Vienna – Austrian experts say melting glaciers have been the single greatest cause of rising sea level over the past century. Scientists at the respected University of Innsbruck say that between 1902Read More…
Johannesburg – Gauteng Ppremier Pomvula Mokonyane opened a school with a difference in Olievenhoutbosch, near Pretoria, on Tuesday. The Orefile Primary School is the first in the province built from alternative constructionRead More…
Johannesburg – South Africa needs an independent operator in the electricity sector, the Free Market Foundation (FMF) said on Tuesday. A single grid owner and operator, South Africa’s current model, resulted inRead More…
Cape Town – Fundisile Mketeni, deputy director general in the department of environmental affairs, told Parliament on Tuesday that 549 rhino have been poached this year. He also said 224 arrests haveRead More…
Anchorage – Around 800m below the ground at Prudhoe Bay, above the vast oil field that helped trigger construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline, a drill rig has tapped what might one dayRead More…
Paris – A study in China’s northwestern Qinling Mountains, home to around 270 pandas and about a fifth of the world’s wild population, predicts a “substantial” bamboo decline this century as theRead More…
Kampala – On a continent where fears of a plunging elephant population are usually high, a sudden upsurge in elephants in Uganda is not being treated as good news. That’s because theRead More…
Oslo – Rich nations are dismaying developing countries with pledges merely to continue aid to help them combat climate change in 2013 despite past promises of a tenfold surge to $100bn aRead More…
Johannesburg – Justice Minister Jeff Radebe has welcomed the 40-year-sentence handed to a Thai national for selling rhino horns, his spokesperson Mthunzi Mhaga said. “Minister Jeff Radebe congratulates the National Prosecuting AuthorityRead More…
Ottawa – The world’s first flight powered entirely by bio jet fuel has raised hopes for cleaner air travel and upped the prospects of a boon for farmers whose oilseed crops couldRead More…
London – Rising temperatures due to climate change could mean wild Arabica coffee is extinct in 70 years, posing a risk to the genetic sustainability of one of the world’s basic commodities,Read More…
Cape Town – Fynbos remains threatened and efforts are under way to expand the knowledge of the biome which is unique in the world. “There are very special vegetation containing large numbersRead More…
Johannesburg – Most South Africans believe climate change is a natural phenomenon and not the result of human behaviour, according to a survey released on Thursday. The study, conducted among 2 000Read More…
Washington – US President Barack Obama has hinted he will make another push to fight climate change after cruising to a new term, but his room for manoeuvre will be limited evenRead More…
(CNN) — Oil companies could soon be using an innovative new technique involving nanotechnology and magnets to help clean up offshore oil spills. Oil spills from container ships or offshore platforms areRead More…
Cape Town – One of the factors that hampers the progress toward a sustainable economy in respect of climate change is that political leaders are more concerned with short-term gains, an environmentalRead More…
Carti Sugdub – Every rainy season, the Guna people living on the Panamanian white sand archipelago of San Blas brace themselves for waves gushing into their tiny mud-floor huts. Rising ocean levelsRead More…
Oslo – The Indian monsoon is likely to fail more often in the next 200 years threatening food supplies, unless governments agree how to limit climate change, a study showed on Tuesday.Read More…
Wellington – The remote Pacific islands of Tokelau have become the first territory in the world to generate their electricity entirely from solar energy, in a project hailed as an environmental milestone.Read More…
Cape Town – The 2deg temperature target endorsed by climate scientists to ensure that the Earth does not undergo runaway climate change effects will likely become unattainable, an environmental organisation has said.Read More…
Johannesburg – Thirty hippos have died in the Kruger National Park as a result of a bacterial virus, SANParks said on Monday. The SA National Parks said an anthrax outbreak was identifiedRead More…
Beijing – China has filed a World Trade Organisation case challenging subsidies provided by some EU members to promote the solar panel industry, adding to a flurry of trade disputes that BeijingRead More…
A recent survey of the Coral Sea and Great Barrier Reef has found coral flourishing in deep waters, a stark contrast to the shallower reefs that have seen a drastic decline overRead More…
Superstorm Sandy was no freak, say experts, but rather a hint of a coming era when millions of Americans will struggle to survive killer weather. They’re telling us we shouldn’t be surprisedRead More…
Wellington – An international push to create a giant marine sanctuary in Antarctica has received a big boost after the US and New Zealand resolved their dispute over fishing. The two countriesRead More…
San Juan – Construction of a $36m solar park in Puerto Rico has begun as the island seeks to reduce its dependence on petroleum. The solar park is being built in theRead More…
Parliament – A British nuclear economist on Tuesday warned Parliament that the government was “ridiculously optimistic” about the potential cost of its nuclear power programme expansion. “The government seems to have aRead More…