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The ferrymen: SA’s taxi drivers face deadly heat on the job
SWELTERING SHIFTS

The ferrymen: SA’s taxi drivers face deadly heat on the job

A new study from Durban shows how at risk taxi drivers are to life-threatening heat stress, and not just during once-off extreme events. Long-term exposure to rising temperatures in their mini buses may end in kidney burnout.

By Leonie Joubert
JUMBO PROBLEM

Bureaucratic delays could lead to ‘last-resort’ culling of SA elephants, Parliament is warned

By Don Pinnock
Bureaucratic delays could lead to ‘last-resort’ culling of SA elephants, Parliament is warned
MUNICIPAL FAILURES

SAHRC probe indicates Gauteng’s water crisis is a man-made disaster

By Lerato Mutsila
SAHRC probe indicates Gauteng’s water crisis is a man-made disaster
RADIOACTIVE ROSATOM

Russia's controversial uranium mining plan threatens southern Africa’s vital aquifer

By Tony Carnie
Russia's controversial uranium mining plan threatens southern Africa’s vital aquifer
OPINIONISTA

The last zoo elephants: Why Johannesburg can no longer justify their captivity

By Adam Cruise
The last zoo elephants: Why Johannesburg can no longer justify their captivity
Scientists challenge ‘business as usual’, calling for Southern-led climate scenarios to tackle the crisis
WEATHERING EXTREMES

Scientists challenge ‘business as usual’, calling for Southern-led climate scenarios to tackle the crisis

By Lerato Mutsila
Why inaction on elephant overpopulation may cause greater animal suffering
OPINIONISTA

Why inaction on elephant overpopulation may cause greater animal suffering

By Robert Kröger
Japan repeats transparency fiction at global thermostat Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting
POLAR POLITICS

Japan repeats transparency fiction at global thermostat Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting

By Tiara Walters
A crisis in search of a policy: How KZN’s elephant ‘overpopulation’ is used to justify culling
OPINIONISTA

A crisis in search of a policy: How KZN’s elephant ‘overpopulation’ is used to justify culling

By Adam Cruise
Ireland vs the Ice Curtain — Dublin eyes decision-making powers in Antarctica
POLAR POLITICS

Ireland vs the Ice Curtain — Dublin eyes decision-making powers in Antarctica

By Tiara Walters
Iran war fuel chaos hits sub-Antarctic as remote Marion relief voyage severely delayed
POLAR POLITICS

Iran war fuel chaos hits sub-Antarctic as remote Marion relief voyage severely delayed

By Tiara Walters
Public gets 3 more weeks to comment on Eskom nuclear site, but critics say it’s not enough
GROUNDUP

Public gets 3 more weeks to comment on Eskom nuclear site, but critics say it’s not enough

By John Yeld
OPINIONISTA

Renewable energy transition in SA needs the embrace of both public and private ownership

By Imraan Valodia
Renewable energy transition in SA needs the embrace of both public and private ownership
STORY ARK

Gut feeling: Wild Coast’s food heritage holds solution to ‘lifestyle’ diseases

By Leonie Joubert
Gut feeling: Wild Coast’s food heritage holds solution to ‘lifestyle’ diseases
WILD WEATHER

Overflowing Kouga Dam leads to evacuations along flooded river valley

By Riaan Marais, Chris van Gass and Andisa Bonani
Overflowing Kouga Dam leads to evacuations along flooded river valley
NOTES FROM A SMALL PLANET

Totems: be alert to the creature that chooses you, it may shape your world

By Don Pinnock
ANALYSIS

Madikwe reserve and the normalisation of killing elephants

By Don Pinnock
COASTAL ORIGINS

The great journey out of Africa may have begun at low tide

By Don Pinnock
MORE THAN MEETS THE ICE

Antarctica land grab theory goes global — ex-Australian PM Tony Abbott must ‘distance’ himself

By Tiara Walters
New data centres set to swallow 34% of Cape Town’s current electricity supply
POWER GUZZLERS

New data centres set to swallow 34% of Cape Town’s current electricity supply

Four new major data centres are set to gobble up the equivalent of 34% of current electricity supply in Cape Town and unknown volumes of cooling water, raising questions about the sustainability of power and water to other sectors in the city.

By Tony Carnie
THE NUDGE OP-Ed

Broken fossil fuel markets? Santa Marta may be a game-changing moment

By Mark Hertsgaard
FOSSIL FUEL PHASE-OUT OP-ED

Wait, could this be a climate conference that actually works?

By Mark Hertsgaard
OPINIONISTA

Great African Seaforest — only floating bamboo kelp forest on the planet

By Chris van Melle Kamp
ROVING REPORTERS

Paving over a sanctuary: Nairobi’s Pallet Café to be replaced by petrol station

By Jody Kockott
Water crisis — close to R19bn lost that could have brought water into homes
WATER CRISIS SPECIAL REPORT

Water crisis — close to R19bn lost that could have brought water into homes

By Lerato Mutsila
Antarctica case tightens: scientist still held as ‘treason’ charges shift from oil to krill
MURKY WATERS

Antarctica case tightens: scientist still held as ‘treason’ charges shift from oil to krill

By Tiara Walters
Toxic tide — dangerously polluted waterways in Joburg and throughout SA threaten public health
OUR CITY NEWS

Toxic tide — dangerously polluted waterways in Joburg and throughout SA threaten public health

By Yvonne Grimbeek
Profit from preservation — the new logic of sustainable capitalism
Sponsored Content

Profit from preservation — the new logic of sustainable capitalism

By Northbound Processing
Wild Coast’s amaMpondo want greater part in preservation and management of ancestral lands
CUTURAL CONSERVATION

Wild Coast’s amaMpondo want greater part in preservation and management of ancestral lands

By Leonie Joubert

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