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 scrutinyCourt ruling ends war over tyre recycling
Motorists have been paying the R2.30/kg levy on new tyres since February
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Embrace the biotech in your shopping basket
Leon van Eck
The best way to ensure future world food security is to combine biotechnology with sustainable agricultural practices
New Discovery body to research lifestyle diseases
Discovery launches institute to conduct scientific research into lifestyle-related disease
State’s mining, biodiversity guideline cautiously welcomed
Critics say new guideline is meaningless if action is not taken to enforce its principlesKirstenbosch strikes gold again at Chelsea
Golden day for South Africa as Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden entry scoops 33rd gold medal at prestigious Chelsea Flower Show
Cape wind farm to transmit power to grid before Kusile
Construction will start later this year, with the wind farm set to deliver up to 100MW of electricity — beating the R170bn Kusile power station onto the grid
Gauteng hospitals to get waste-generated backup power supply
Province, Industrial Development Corporation mapping state hospitals’ proximity to landfill sites, as part of plan to ensure cancelled surgeries are a thing of the past
Network sees value biodiversity has for business
Endangered Wildlife Trust’s CEO, Yolan Friedmann, says South Africa has given birth to none of the ‘cool’ business solutions to saving biodiversity
Whale watchers must watch for minister
Most glaring oddity of Tina Joemat-Pettersson’s proposed changes to marine resources legislation is that it appears to make whale watching an offence — unless the watcher has her permission
DA warns of acid mine drainage in three more regions
Minister says since inception of the interministerial committee to look into the problem, good progress has been made
Mines minister ‘caught in a legislative snare’
Lack of clarity over whether mineral resources minister has declared one of SA’s most important water catchment areas a ‘no-go area’ for miners is causing concern
A company’s transparency ‘earns respect’ in SA
Urban South Africans increasingly, and overwhelmingly, in favour of responsible business practices, new survey finds
Radio astronomy publication a milestone for SA
Astronomers working on the KAT-7 radio telescope have published their first scientific paper
Joburg sets 2016 target to divert waste from landfill sites
Johannesburg could divert from landfill 20% of the annual 1.8-million tons of waste it produces
- 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
- Astronomy agency not economically feasible, says Hanekom
- Aquaculture project ‘important first step, but more is needed’
- Scientists may be closing in on dark matter
- Namib’s fairies get a little help from ants
- SANParks funding plan ‘will stand up to scrutiny’
- Molewa signs agreements with China at Brics summit
- Developing world ‘cannot duck’ climate change any longer
- Cheating gelada monkeys take evasive action to duck reprisals
- Molewa welcomes recent rhino-poaching arrests
- Brics countries cook the climate
- US ‘keen’ to see SA’s clean energy work start
- Fund hails signing of Benguela convention
- Wits, Nasa develop new technology to treat acid mine water
- SKA project invites bids for work in early stage
- SA, Vietnamese NGOs launch joint rhino campaign
- SA lacks analysis of its fishing markets
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