Environment

Bid to protect West Coast jewel from mining

Controversial Australian company applies for further prospecting rights

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News | 3 December 2019

Farrar Park residents blame dumping for spoiling neighbourhood

Mining company refuses to erect new fence

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News | 3 December 2019

Call for JSE to act on climate change

Extinction Rebellion pours cold water on Black Friday

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Brief | 29 November 2019

From plastic bottle to … plastic bottle: how Cape Town recycles

90% of South Africa’s waste is not recycled

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Feature | 22 November 2019

Makana residents blame municipality for filthy dump site

Children play in the rubbish, say residents

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Brief | 21 November 2019

Western Cape government confronts City of Cape Town over “appalling unhygienic” conditions in Dunoon

City says it has “a service delivery obligation but is not itself the cause of the pollution”

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News | 14 November 2019

Silver lining to Dusi pollution calamity?

Durban-Pietermaritzburg river pollution is a microcosm of nationwide water pollution control failures

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Feature | 14 November 2019

Extinction Rebellion pickets Gwede Mantashe’s department

Global movement against human-caused climate change steps up its South African presence

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Brief | 11 October 2019

One in seven plants and animals in SA threatened with extinction, new report shows

Alien vegetation has a “severe impact” on biodiversity says SANBI

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News | 8 October 2019

Rats still live in Kanana’s filthy ditches

30-year-old settlement is still a mess

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News | 4 October 2019

Cape Town’s rivers are open streams of sewage, yet the City is not spending its budget

Water in the Black River is as dirty as untreated sewage

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Feature | 26 September 2019

South African teenager wins international photographic award

Powerful image sheds light on desperate measures to save rhinos

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News | 25 September 2019

South Africans come out in support of #ClimateStrike

“You’ll die of old age. I’ll die of climate change”

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News | 20 September 2019

Coal mine next to game reserve faces legal challenge

Pietermaritzburg judge grants leave to appeal to environmental groups

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News | 19 September 2019

Tender dispute disrupts City of Cape Town’s waste recycling

City still to appoint managers of drop-off facilities

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News | 18 September 2019

Go-ahead for controversial oil project off KZN coast

Environmental groups’ objections over-ruled

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News | 11 September 2019