Mercury accumulates naturally in many fish we love to eat - but no one has yet worked out just how much of this toxin is found in local fish.
Hawskbill turtles are critically endangered because of their beautiful shells and have been hunted for centuries to make "tortoiseshell" trinkets.
The decision to allow anglers to fish in the Tsitsikamma National Marine Protected Area from next week as a "pilot project" is procedurally unfair and contravenes ...
THE Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled that Eskom’s R5 billion tender to French nuclear vendor Areva to replace Koeberg’s aging steam generators was “irrational and ...
THEY united to fight proposals to build a shopping mall and taxi rank in one of the few green lungs on the Cape Flats.
SOUTH Africa’s pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions was among the four most ambitious commitments submitted to the COP21 climate talks.
It is known as the "cancer bush" and has been used from historic times to treat a variety of ailments from colds and flu to diarrhoea and rheumatism - and more recently ...
TSITSIKAMMA residents are delighted that the government will allow them to fish in parts of Africa’s oldest marine protected area.
“NEVER before has a responsibility so great been in the hands of so few. ”
MORE than 1 000 Capetonians took to the streets in soaring heat yesterday as part of the global climate march on the eve of the COP21 climate talks that begin in ...
THE Hawks have arrested three police officers for alleged rhino poaching.
PEOPLE around the world will take to the streets on Sunday on the eve of the two-week UN climate talks in Paris.
VIETNAM customs authorities have confiscated 860kg of elephant tusks hidden among frozen fish heads in more than a thousand boxes.
CIVIL society groups have called for a change in water management in the light of the current water crisis and for the authorities to protect the country’s “water ...
ENVIRONMENTAL crime, worth between $70 billion and $213bn a year, was driven by greed, Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa said yesterday.
A BUNCH of rare and endangered plants, some which were thought to have become extinct within the boundaries of Cape Town, have been found – most of them on private ...
THE genetic diversity of great white sharks along the South African coastline is the lowest of all great whites in the world – so low that their long-term survival ...
GREEN energy is now the second largest generator of electricity in the world after coal, and is set to become the leading source of new electricity within 20 years, ...
KOMMETJIE residents have lodged an appeal against the approval of three large luxury houses to be built outside the urban edge in the buffer zone of the Table Mountain ...
MANY of the heatwaves, droughts, floods and cyclones of 2014 can be linked to humans pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, according to a new research report. ...
IN the old days when a male baboon on Table Mountain reached sexual maturity, and the big males gave him a hard time, he simply headed off over the Cape Flats in ...
FISHERIES Minister Senzeni Zokwana has ironed out the irregularities in the 2013 rights allocation for tuna pole fishing and scrapped those rights that were unlawful. ...
A WIND farm near Port Elizabeth has been pumping much-needed electricity into the grid, but for many people living in shacks nearby, it has brought them something ...
SOUTH Africa’s renewable energy programme will prevent 45 million tons of carbon emissions being pumped into the atmosphere annually, according to Energy Minister ...
South Africa's proposed carbon tax is designed to get polluting companies to change their behaviour, cut greenhouse gas emissions and shift towards cleaner technology, ...