Tuffy launches new recycling-centre locator app
Plastics company expects mobile application, which will help consumers locate nearest recycling centre, will boost plastic recycling rateRhinos to move to Botswana from SA to escape poachers
Safari operators and conservation groups plan to move up to 100 South African rhinos to Botswana for safekeeping, as poaching levels spike to new highs
Opinion
TORQUE: National water shortage arrives
David Gleason
An unstable situation persists in the water sector, reflected in the stories of failures in service delivery
SA’s carbon tax ‘delayed by one year’ to 2016
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan says SA will work to tweak its policies to better protect industry from proposed tax price of R120 per ton of carbon equivalent
Harmony Gold tells court National Water Act pollution directive is invalid
Miner’s attempt to avoid expense of cleaning up land it has mined will rest on argument involving National Water Act directiveAncient star helps scientists understand universe’s origins
Australian astronomers find oldest known star in the universe, a discovery that may help resolve discrepancy between observations and predictions of Big Bang
Bee sensors shed light on ‘colony collapse’
Scientists glue tiny sensors onto thousands of bees to track movements in trial aimed at halting spread of diseases that have wiped out northern hemisphere populations
SA research spend falls for fourth year
Report shows SA spent only 0.76% of gross domestic product on research in 2010-11 — down from 0.87% in 2009-10
Mining company works on preventing further pollution of water in Kruger
Bosveld Phosphate joins Department of Water Affairs, South African National Parks to ensure acid mine water does not contaminate vital Selati River again
Study uses stem cells to help treat drug-resistant TB
Patients with potentially lethal multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) might one day be treated with stem cells taken from their own bone marrow
Fracking tax ‘will promote renewable energy’
If done correctly fracking could be used to move SA towards greener future, but excessive exploitation of shale gas will drain too much of Karoo’s scarce water resources
Crunch year ahead for SA’s rhinos
Country may make breakthrough in efforts to save species from extinction, but threat looms of birth rate falling behind poaching rate
Airbus grants R2.5m to UCT for software tool
A software programme devised by South African engineers has received a financial injection of R2.5m from Airbus Defence and Space
Councils slow to spend water grant as protests grow
By end of December municipalities had only spent R53m or 9% of their R603m allocation under a dedicated grant for water infrastructure, officials of Department of Water Affairs and Forestry tell Parliament
Wind energy wafts into SA’s power grid from west coast
Umoya Energy’s 37-turbine Hopefield wind farm certified fully operational, starts generating electricity
Tasmania’s giant jellyfish discovery ‘is Disneyland for marine biologists’
Scientists in Australia are working to name and classify previously undiscovered 1.5m jellyfish believed to be related to the lion’s mane species known as a ‘snotty’
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Biofuels paper something to brag about
The Draft Position Paper on the South African Biofuels Regulatory Framework is the last hurdle in the way of the creation of a potentially R15bn-a-year biofuels industry
Opinion
Faulty science will lead to poor decisions
Philip Lloyd
Philip Lloyd: Can we not rely on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to provide us with the best advice on how to address the effects of climate change?
Opinion
Denialists’ disdain for science is a vital human rights issue
David le Page
Argument about climate change is aberration as we do not have public debates in newspapers about validity of other fields of science
- Plenty still to do in conservation
- Rhino poaching continues to soar
- Molewa to consolidate water boards
- TORQUE: Carbon tax will retard economy
- Water challenges fall on deaf ears
- Nasa takes a look back at the ‘cosmic dawn’
- Acid mine water kills substantial number of fish in Kruger park
- MIKE MULLER: Wicked challenge of finding a new set of SA water experts
- South African companies ‘taking climate change seriously’
- EDITORIAL: Pollution cleanups cannot be dodged
- Report questions steel firm ArcelorMittal’s social responsibility
- SA-led group signs solar plant deal in Cameroon
- EDITORIAL: Not the right time
- SIMON LINCOLN READER: Why is Eskom the only rotter in the spy saga?
- UN talks’ faltering pace makes it harder for EU to keep climate lead
- Protected areas to help bring relief to SA’s tenuous water supply
- DAVID GLEASON: Subsidy hunting continues apace
- THAMI MAZWAI: Getting close to rhinos is a moving encounter
- Rhino poaching cost SA R1bn over five years, says hunting body
- Figures point to bioprospecting boom
- SIPHO HLONGWANE: We need Bachmans of the world to save lions
- Umgeni Vlei Nature Reserve deemed a ‘wetland of international importance’
- Australian shark-killing policy angers Humane Society
- More than 1,000 of SA’s rhinos lost to poachers in 2013
- Sweltering heat settles in across much of SA
- Transnet’s Durban port plan earns ‘climate-change denialist’ gibe
- South Africa missing ‘green growth’ opportunities
- Sharing sovereignty ‘key to float continent’s maritime integration strategy’
- SIMON LINCOLN READER: ‘Lost tribes’ of Brazil spark controversy
- Department ‘welcomes’ Public Protector’s declaration on fishing patrols
- Index on energy ‘balance’ puts SA in middle
- Scientists discover ‘wonder’ gene that boosts rice yields
- WWF turns to South African anglers for fishing data
- Emissions standards set for small boilers
- Minister floats plan for patrol fleet to fight tuna overfishing
- SKA project helps local e-school plan
- SA’s ‘CSI’ squads probe rhino poaching
- South Africa at crossroads on climate-change challenges
- Hong Kong returns seized rhino horn to South Africa
- Solar power ‘finally comes home’
- Carnarvon’s poor place their hopes in SKA project
- SA’s first nano-satellite will be able to monitor space ‘weather’
- MIKE TEKE: Balance between mining and conservation must be found
- Light quake rattles Johannesburg
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