A ruling by the UK Supreme Court could have huge implications for British companies accused of environmental damage overseas...
Sam Varvastian 10 hours ago
Eskom has been ordered by the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF) to stop operations at Unit 1 or 5 of the Kendal power plant, in Mpumalanga, within 30 days because of dangerously high levels of emissions....
20 May 2020
Susan Goldberg, editor in chief of National Geographic magazine, tell us more about this special Earth Day issue and provides a global perspective on the impact of the pandemic on the publishing industry and the magazine specifically, and how they're responding...
Jessica Tennant 11 May 2020
Woolworths has announced a commitment of over R34m to support a variety of initiatives to meet the challenges of the Covid-19 crisis in South Africa...
23 Apr 2020
Environment minister Barbara Creecy has ordered air pollution data and anti-pollution plans of some of South Africa's biggest polluters to be made public...
John Yeld 16 Apr 2020
Climate change has presented additional risks to agricultural production and to farming enterprises...
Pertunia Setumo 14 Apr 2020
Coca-Cola, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever are responsible for half a million tonnes of plastic pollution that is burnt or dumped per year in just six developing countries...
1 Apr 2020
South Africa remains under pressure when it comes to efficient water use and conservation, where limited supply is increasingly stressed by rising demand, aged and insufficient infrastructure and lack of consumer awareness...
Karen King 25 Mar 2020
How do you respond to a crisis? It's obvious that the response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been dramatically different to anything provoked by repeated scientific warnings about climate change...
Simone Abram 24 Mar 2020
At the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, countries set goals that require halving carbon emissions by 2030. In a new piece in Nature, Professor Harald Winkler, as part of an international team, delivers the bad news that the emissions gap...
16 Mar 2020
Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO and the richest man alive, recently made headlines after pledging to donate $10bn to a new "Bezos Earth Fund"...
Heather Alberro 3 Mar 2020
Secretary-general Patricia Scotland said the Commonwealth advocates for changes in policies, modification of behaviour and curbs in pollution to reverse damage to our environment and ensure climate justice...
2 Mar 2020
Ethiopia's Green Legacy Initiative has been shortlisted for The Climate Coalition's Green Heart Hero Award...
28 Feb 2020
The effect that fossil fuels are having on the climate emergency is driving an international push to use low-carbon sources of energy...
Antoine Koen and Pau Farres Antunez 27 Feb 2020
