For Cape Town to survive, it needs more than just a good technical approach to managing water
The caterpillars are a vital source of protein and income but are being overharvested
Without measurable targets, how are we going to achieve our climate change goals?
Climate change negotiations are like a 17-year group effort to write a book. Will Durban close a chapter?
The term “refugee” isn’t one governments want to talk about in the context of climate change
We’ve evolved to have the pattern-recognition software in our brains, even if it sometimes leads us to false conclusions.
Consider how radically an understanding of the heavens has changed; how we view ourselves and our place in the universe.
It’s not often that a national monument gets to fast-track that awkward birds-‘n-bees conversation.
Leonie Joubert chats to former provincial environment minister Tasneem Essop after her sudden departure from politics .
Give me a pearly white smile! There you go. Now consider this: the calcium in your teeth was cooked up inside a giant red star, billions of years ago.
Leonie Joubert to lucifer: You make it easier for us to live with ourselves. It’s easier to hold that an external agency paved the way for us.
I have decided to become a fairaeologist — one who studies fairies. I believe I see fairies. I’m sure they exist.
History probably does have a bit of a musty public persona — seemingly crusty, tweed-clad and whiffing faintly of mothballs.
The museum — small, intimate and in the very spot where it all took place — remembers the man, the remarkable history of heart transplant surgery.
I wake with a snort, roused by the clatter of a ballpoint pen hitting the floor. It spins idly to a halt, put there by the same peaches-and-cream striped paw now tapping one end…
According to an arcane superstition pre-dating the Enlightenment, I can be a bitch at times. We all can, now and then, but my predisposition was determined by the position of our…
A projectile the size of a child’s fist shot across the lawn and buried itself in a crouching rhododendron bush. It was summer in the early 1980s and we kids were home from…
Fynbos is the smallest but richest floral kingdom in the world and has been harvested for the fresh-flower market for decades. Harvesting of wild fynbos in the Western Cape may…
The debate about nuclear power has escalated with the approach of the final deadline on Monday for appeals against Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Mohammed Valli…
