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Kwamboka Oyaro When a woman rises to the top rung of the traditionally all-male corporate ladder in Africa...read |
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Australia is calling on the world's top scientific minds to help save the Great Barrier Reef, offering hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund research into protecting the world's largest living structure...read |
Shabeer Jhetam Being green is certainly seen to be trendy, but while many are claiming to be, are they actually green?read |
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| Dorah Modise The impact of buildings and construction on the environment is astounding... read | | | Elaine Jack "A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transport." These are the paraphrased words uttered by Enrique Penalosa, the former Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia... read | | | If there's one thing Africa isn't short of it is sunshine. So, it's hardly surprising that solar is making a major impact on increasing the number of people on the continent who have access to power... read | |
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| Michele Fugiel Gartner Charitable giving may seem like a fairly straightforward exchange: from donor to charity. But it is actually made up of many layers and multiple dynamics... read |
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| Global warming is expected to unleash more rain, exposing millions more people to river flooding, particularly in the United States and parts of Asia, Africa and central Europe... read |
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| Thin Lei Win Failure to rein in global temperature rises could cause the marine food web to collapse, devastating the livelihoods of tens of millions of people who rely on fisheries for food and income, scientists have warned... read |
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| Dave Chambers Woolworths' Farming for the Future programme is succeeding in encouraging farmers to use more environmentally friendly management practices than their counterparts that do not supply the grocery chain... read |
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| Tourvest Destination Management, Africa's largest inbound tour operator and a member of integrated tourism group Tourvest, read |
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| Srinivasan Keshav Imagine buying a solar panel from a hardware store, mounting it on your roof, then selling the green electricity you produce at a price you set... read |
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| Neels Blom It is self-evident that without sufficient water, SA cannot thrive; perhaps it is too profound a necessity to express in ordinary words... read |
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| Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille says a recent groundwater survey has revealed that aquifers around the city will deliver more water than expected... read |
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| More than one million (estimated) manpower hours by 400 scientists from across the globe created the Wendelstein 7-X, a machine that could be capable of replicating the reaction that powers the sun, but using plasma. read |
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| Rebecca Walker Reczek, Daniel Zane and Julie Irwin Imagine a shopper, Sarah, who is concerned about child labour and knows about groups like the Fair Wear Foundation that certify which brands sell ethically produced clothing. Hours after learning that fashion giant H&M reportedly sells clothing made by children in risky workplaces in Burma, she goes shopping. Completely forgetting about what she just heard, she buys an H&M dress. read |
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| Danica-Lea Larcombe Humans have built high-rises since ancient Roman times, but it wasn't until the 20th century that they became the default work space for a significant slice of the world's workers... read |
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| Ernest Harsch In this special coverage of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the focus is on SDG 10, which is "Reduced inequality within and among countries". The aim of SDG 10 is for countries to adopt policies that promote the three dimensions of sustainable development - economic, social and environmental... read |
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| Leigh Andrews The first work week of 2018 for many was also one where we heard the global female voice loud and clear on social media, with 'celebration emojis' for everything from Iceland's equal pay law to #HereWeAre, #TimesUp and #Oprah2020... read |
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| SustainPower, together with Unique Hydra, recently delivered a locally manufactured biogas electrical power generator to ibert, a Southern Africa biogas company... read |
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| Guy Rogers Port Elizabeth Harbour tenants are fighting mad about a new wave of air pollution from Transnet's two manganese ore facilities which is damaging property and business opportunities. It is also a health threat... read |
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| RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state on Wednesday brought in a law cracking down on ads deemed to be sexist, threatening violators with hefty fines... read |
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