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Sewer-access clearers clearing solid waste that blocks the storm water drains along the Duzi River.  Picture: SUPPLIED

Communities in drive to clean up the Duzi River

River sanitation project sets up green corridor for pollution-infested Duzi River system, writes Heather Dugmore

Telescope project runs into farmer flak

BLOCK: The KAT-7 telescope, a precursor to the much larger MeerKAT Karoo telescope and SKA, which has run into opposition over its plan to acquire land, used for sheep farming (Inset). Pictures: SUNDAY TIMES

Farmers demand collective talks and are unhappy about confidentiality clauses contained land valuation agreements

Farmers left out in cold over drought intervention

Picture: THINKSTOCK

Agri SA says commercial farmers have been left out of the government’s drought intervention in North West province

China’s tigers lie in wait for eventual repatriation

South China tiger. Picture: BLOOMBERG

Difficult and ambitious project to re-wild ‘functionally extinct’ South China tigers throws up monumental challenges for ecotourism enthusiast Stuart Bray, writes Kit Chellel

Meteorologists fly into El Niño’s heart for data

Children pump water at the last tap with running water in drought-stricken Masotsheni, north of Durban, last month. Scientists are flying into the source of El Niño, causing the drought, to collect data. Picture: REUTERS

Data are helping researchers better understand what happens in the heart of the strongest El Niño in a generation


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