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…

Cape Town – Environmental organisations find it difficult to convince ordinary people of the reality of climate change, despite a noticeable increase in extreme weather events. “There is no question that oneRead More…

Washington – US farmers are using more hazardous pesticides to fight weeds and insects due largely to heavy adoption of genetically modified crop technologies that are sparking a rise of “superweeds” andRead More…

KwaZulu-Natal – Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife chief Bandile Mkhize is calling in independent wildlife crime investigators to probe the recent slaughter of nine rhino in the province, including the possible involvement of EzemveloRead More…

An independent geological report has found that it is “highly probable” a controversial technique to extract gas, known as fracking, triggered two minor earthquakes on the Lancashire coast earlier this year. TheRead More…

Johannesburg – Poachers killed 100 rhino in less than two months, a surge in killings that took the tally for the year to 381, authorities said on Wednesday. More than half ofRead More…

Jeju – Global tuna stocks are fast reaching the limits of fishing sustainability, decimated by an absence of comprehensive, science-based catch limits, conservation experts warned on Saturday. Five of the world’s eightRead More…

Durban – Eighty percent of Durban beach water that was tested during the past year did not meet South African water standards, the Independent on Saturday reported. The newspaper reported that theRead More…

LEGAL OPINION: THE Rio+20 conference may have failed to deliver on expectations, but it is heartening to see that Ireland has, at last, ratified the Aarhus convention which it signed in 1998.Read More…

An island of ice twice the size of Manhattan broke off this week from a Greenland glacier, a University of Delaware researcher reports. The 59-square-mile (150 square kilometers) iceberg is the secondRead More…

Although most analysts assume that the world’s population will rise from today’s 7 billion to 9 billion by 2050, it is quite possible that humanity will never reach this population size, WorldwatchRead More…

China, perhaps more than any other country, faces many important and difficult population challenges: reproductive health and reproductive rights, rural-urban migration and reform of the hukou system, and imbalances in the sexRead More…

In the fall, the body of water already turns over at a depth of between zero and 20 meters and the Planktothrix comes to the surface from depths of 15 meters. ItRead More…