SOUTH Africans throw away more than nine million tons of food every year, according to the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa.
AEROSOLS, tiny particles of pollutants suspended in the air, contribute to the premature deaths of seven million people around the world every year.
A study has found that most economic analyses of carbon capture and storage technology seriously underestimate the cost of this technique and over-estimate its energy ...
Water restrictions in the City are set to kick in on January 1 - and the price of water is to increase.
THE city council will announce water restrictions for Cape Town next month.
Baby penguins that were facing starvation on Dyer Island off Gansbaai have been rescued in a joint operation by CapeNature and the African Penguin and Seabird Sanctuary. ...
ONE in six species is at risk of extinction because of global climate change, according to a report released by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
BIRDS are feeling the heat from climate change – but a UCT study has found it is more than just rising temperature that is causing the decline in some Western Cape ...
A GLACIER in Greenland that holds enough water to raise sea levels by 45cm has come “unmoored” and is crumbling into the Atlantic Ocean, according to research published ...
THE Department of Environmental Affairs' "Green Scorpions" handed out more criminal dockets in the last financial year to those breaking the country's environmental ...
The pied crow population is increasing in the Western Cape - with global climate change and power lines being the two main reasons that these noisy birds are migrating ...
IF YOU are up an hour before sunrise, look east into the predawn sky and you will see what Nasa describes as a “rare and beautiful sight”.
EXTREME swimmers Andrew Chin and Henko Roukema, who set off last week to swim the Berg River as part of the Rivers for Life programme, have packed up and gone home ...
Space agency has launched a site that post daily pictures of our planet as it spins through space.
IT could be called the ultimate selfie – a daily photograph of our planet Earth.
THE UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has elected Hoesung Lee from the Republic of Korea as its new leader.
CIVIC organisations told MPs of the disconnect between the commitments South Africa will make at the UN’s COP21 in Paris and the reality of the government’s carbon ...
Greenland’s glaciers are melting at a rate of a few metres a day during summer and researchers say the total meltwater from Greenland could cause an eventual sea ...
Global climate change was one catastrophe humanity had the power to stop, Nelson Mandela had said, and the South African public now have a chance to say how this ...
All science pushed the boundaries of knowledge, but the Square Kilometre Array would push these boundaries on the largest scale imaginable, Science and Technology ...
A solar-powered aircraft took off from Japan to begin a historical five-day non-stop crossing of the Pacific to Hawaii.
A solar-powered aircraft took off from Japan yesterday to begin a historical five-day non-stop crossing of the Pacific to Hawaii - the longest leg of its round-the-world ...
South Africa's wind energy capacity has grown from just eight turbines in 2012 to 294 today - the result of a R55bn investment by the private sector, the SA Wind ...
Astronomers have found what they think is a system of rings around a small rocky object - and they're intrigued.
A minor planet in our solar system has astronomers thinking in rings.