January 17, 2011
A look back 2,500 years at how climate and society have been intertwined A prolonged period of wet weather spurred the spread of the bubonic plague […]
January 16, 2011
Cutting up the credit cards is probably the greenest thing anyone could do but sometimes, buying new stuff—or patronizing a favorite restaurant—is necessary. When those times […]
January 15, 2011
Johannesburg – Acidic mine water that has been bubbling out of an old ventilation shaft on the West Rand for the past year has now reached […]
January 14, 2011
The Rhodes Zoology and Entomology Department has been awarded a R9 million contract by the Working For Water (WFW) Programme of the Department of Water and […]
January 14, 2011
High energy costs are one drawback of making clean water from waste effluents. According to an article in the journal Biomicrofluidics, which is published by the […]
January 12, 2011
More and more people are starting to think ethically about their food. Where it comes from, how many miles it has traveled, what kind of conditions […]
January 11, 2011
2010 was a record-breaking year for natural disasters. According to Insurance ERM, a website dedicated to enterprise risk management, this makes 2010 the second-highest year of […]
January 3, 2011
Large parts of Australia’s coastal northeast disappeared under floodwaters on Sunday in a spreading disaster that has brought some of the highest floods on record and […]
January 2, 2011
“Ecoagriculture” is a term coined in 2000 by Sara Scherr and Jeffrey McNeely, authors of the Future Harvest-commissioned report Common Ground, Common Future: How Ecoagriculture Can […]
December 22, 2010
Just a handful of nations are leading the way in the development of green energy and environmental technologies. Where are advances being made in clean energy […]
December 12, 2010
It’s not perfect, and it’s not binding, but international climate negotiators have struck a deal. The final hours in Cancun were a world of difference from […]
November 14, 2010
Green living is easier, and more rewarding, than you may have thought. Green living must be incorporated into all areas of our lives on a daily […]
November 13, 2010
South Africa’s draft national Climate Change Policy, known as the green paper, has been approved by Cabinet, and would be gazetted imminently, opening up the public […]
November 8, 2010
A new report coming from the Arab Forum for Environment and Development fills in some details on how water availability is going to decline in the […]
November 7, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC — Cool roofs, solar water heating and advanced metering are among the energy efficiency elements that are to be incorporated into new permanent Army […]
November 6, 2010
Scientists have long known that large volcanic explosions can affect the weather by spewing particles that block solar energy and cool the air. Some suspect that […]
November 6, 2010
Banking group Standard Bank has invested R2,3-million in a hybrid solar water heating and heat pump system at the company’s head office in Johannesburg, as it […]
November 5, 2010
South African petrochemicals group Sasol intends to ramp up production by half to 450-million scfd of gas from its natural gas fields in Mozambique, a senior […]