In concert, individual baby steps can translate into giant strides in reducing emissions.
We can’t stop climate change so we must prepare for it.
A shocking projection highlights the urgent need for South Africans to start taking the looming water crisis seriously.
According to South Africa’s Water Research Commission, by 2025 around 600-million people in sub-Saharan Africa will have insufficient water.
Conserving water is not just the job of the country’s government departments and provincial authorities.
The government is taking measures to combat poaching but is it too little, too late?
It takes big money to get communities to buy into conservation efforts to save habitats.
Today’s safari is significantly more than a jolly jaunt for the rich and fabulous wazungus (white people) of yesteryear.
With the lion’s share of FTTSA-certified products, the Western Cape is fast becoming the home of responsible tourism in South Africa.
The empowering ability of tourism has never been more evident than in six groundbreaking projects spearheaded by a unique joint venture.
When the major decision of the day is whether to fish, take a cruise up the river or have another beer, the lower Zambezi Valley feels like paradise.
Eskom wants to run power lines through a tiny town that even apartheid couldn’t reach.
South Africa’s annual science festival kicks off in Grahamstown with a lecture from a homegrown heroine, writes Sharon van Wyk.
Mathemagician Arthur Benjamin is one of the star attractions at this year’s festival. Sharon van Wyk reports.
A keynote lecture at SciFest Africa will be about flying dinosaurs, writes Sharon van Wyk.
From biology to ballet shoes, the SciFest Talkshops offer a fascinating range of topics.
Here are some of the highlights of SciFest Africa 2010’s lectures which are open to audiences of grade 10+ and cost R10 a person.
South Africa’s brightest and most promising tourism SMMEs are receiving the recognition they deserve, writes Sharon van Wyk.
Dr Niall Vine and his team are developing methods to mass produce the probiotics diet supplement that improves the perlemoen’s immune system.
Sharon van Wyk reports on a passionate winemaker.
