Topic: Environment

Packaging companies flout rules on waste picker payments

Waste pickers collect, sort and transport most of our recyclable waste, and regulations say they be must paid for their services

By Steve Kretzmann

News | 25 October 2024

‘Missing link’ added to Table Mountain National Park

Two properties have been added to join the centre and south of the park to form the Kommetjie-Noordhoek wetlands land chain

By John Yeld

News | 24 October 2024

Talks on penguin litigation fail to break deadlock

But environment minister and bird conservation groups both say an out-of-court settlement is yet possible

By John Yeld

News | 21 October 2024

Using radiation to stop the traffic of rhino horns

The Wits Rhisotope project hopes to help conservation efforts

By Neil Thomas Stacey

Science | 16 October 2024

Tensions rise over unfenced Kruger Park after predators kill cattle

State vet warns that livestock wandering into the park pose significant disease threat

By Thembi Siaga

News | 14 October 2024

The health and economic costs of emissions at Kusile power plant

Eskom has an exemption to operate without flue gas desulpharization until March

By Nidal Boorany

Science | 14 October 2024

Africa Oil Week: Mantashe slams “foreign-funded” activists

Protests held against fossil-fuel industry in Cape Town and Johannesburg

By Ihsaan Haffejee and Matthew Hirsch

News | 8 October 2024

New blasting limits set for mines - at last

Chief Inspector of Mines publishes South Africa’s first mine blasting standards

By Danjelle Midgley

Opinion | 8 October 2024

Phola residents say mining has brought misery not benefits

Community members protested at coal mining offices of Seriti over damage to homes from blasting

By Ihsaan Haffejee

Photo Essay | 7 October 2024

Rooigevaar in Saldanha: residents say red dust from Transnet’s ore terminal is staining their homes and even their dogs

But Transnet says the dust falls below legal limits

Text by Liezl Human. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.

News | 4 October 2024

Former environment minister Creecy under fire from penguin conservation groups

And new environment minister George has also been criticised

By John Yeld

News | 30 September 2024

Using carbon dating to stop elephant and rhino poaching

But even a controlled ivory trade may send the wrong message

By Cole Potgieter

Science | 23 September 2024

New frog species found in Cederberg

Meet Cacosternum cederbergense, the Cederberg Dainty Frog

By Tyrone Ping

Science | 20 September 2024

Province tells City of Cape Town to clean up Dunoon

Warning on pollution and health hazards in informal settlement

By Peter Luhanga

Brief | 9 September 2024

How much worse are coloured plastics for the environment?

Studies are finding more reason to boycott coloured plastic products

By Aisling de Lange

Science | 6 September 2024

Aussie-owned West Coast mining company in trouble

Owner of controversial Tormin mine is in business rescue

By John Yeld

News | 3 September 2024