Farm goods to go up, says FAO
OECD and UN body believe agricultural prices will climb in the next decade on a combination of higher energy costs, falling productivity growth and rising demandEuropean Union trade accord delay hurts South African fishing industry
SA could miss taking advantage of EU’s move to drastically reduce fishing in its waters to save dwindling fish stocks
Opinion
State needs the political will to destroy crime syndicates
Paul Hoffman
If the government were to invest heavily in the destruction of crime syndicates, then a viable solution to rhino poaching is possible
DA opposes plans to introduce carbon tax
Opposition MPs argue taking the lead in curbing emissions will damage South Africa’s economic growth prospects
SA missing out on billions in funding to clean up oil spills
World Wide Fund for Nature SA urges government to enact law that will enable it to access funding under international conventionOpinion
Why is the environmentalist left so angry?
Simon Lincoln Reader
An ugly imposter has replaced principle-centred and reasoned debate
Opinion
Environment an excuse to gain power over liberty
Leon Louw
Perceived environmental threats can be used to legitimise controlling society at the expense of liberty
‘Toxic soup’ threatens future of Olifants River
Mining, industrial, agricultural and sewage pollution threatens future of Mpumalanga’s Olifants River
ANC Youth League denies dumping human waste on legislature steps
ANC Youth League in Western Cape says it is not responsible for emptying contents of porta-loos on steps, as witnesses claim
Gauteng to install rooftop solar panels
Province to start rolling out project expected to generate 300MW of electricity, and bolster job creation and enterprise development
Cape Town cold front displaces more than 2,000
Up to 547 shacks have been damaged and 2,266 people displaced by storms and flooding in Bishop Lavis, Hout Bay and parts of Gugulethu, Strand and Khayelitsha
Two illegal homes to be demolished in heritage park
Judge orders removal of two illegal holiday homes from the iSimangaliso Wetland Park
Molewa moves to other side of the fence on rhinos
Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa’s plans to re-erect fence along Kruger National Park border mark a total U-turn
Society, environment issues ‘should concern miners’
Chamber of Mines chairman says miners have to be aware of their impact on society and the environment, with their operations under increased public scrutiny
- Embrace the biotech in your shopping basket
- Court ruling ends war over tyre recycling
- New Discovery body to research lifestyle diseases
- State’s mining, biodiversity guideline cautiously welcomed
- Kirstenbosch strikes gold again at Chelsea
- Cape wind farm to transmit power to grid before Kusile
- Whale watchers must watch for minister
- DA warns of acid mine drainage in three more regions
- Mines minister ‘caught in a legislative snare’
- A company’s transparency ‘earns respect’ in SA
- Network sees value biodiversity has for business
- Gauteng hospitals to get waste-generated backup power supply
- Radio astronomy publication a milestone for SA
- Joburg sets 2016 target to divert waste from landfill sites
- SA identified as a green tax trailblazer
- SA urged to avoid disaster that has befallen European and North American bees
- KPMG finds tax is major driver of green policy in SA
- Poaching to be brought to top-level attention
- SA, Vietnam sign ‘action plan’ to curb rhino poaching
- Scientists create buzz with robotic fly
- Big drugmakers think small
- Acid water pumps must be in place in months
- SA firms growing more aware of water’s strategic value
- Nautic ‘to maintain state’s fisheries boats’
- Lower carbon tax ‘still risk to growth’
- Treasury warns carbon tax dodgers will ‘feel the heat’
- Government policy standing in the way of urban ‘greening’ efforts
- Rapid fall in African penguin population ‘still not understood’
- SA ‘slipping behind’ in research spending
- Waiver would not authorise higher emissions, says ArcelorMittal SA
- Nedbank report points to sustainability threat to growth
- Bringing green acts into the workplace
- Silence on carbon tax worries industry
- South Africa’s businesses urged to manage water usage
- More tests run on eMalahleni’s polluted air
- ArcelorMittal SA wants waiver on pollution rules
- Printed matter not so bad for environment after all, says review
- SA is a ‘world leader’ in green energy
- Hanekom seeks SA investment by German companies
- Agriculture is putting SA in deep water
- Despite armed guards, Africa’s rhinos are losing the poaching battle
- A turbulent future awaits the traveller
- Lack of commercial activity ‘eases pressure’ on new marine protection area
- Recent upswing in rhino attacks ‘does not point to increased intensity in poaching’
- Scientists shed new light on ancient fossil
- Buyers, not banks or agents, push for greener homes
- Rhino horn trade may be way to save the species
- Acting Water Tribunal to be appointed
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