Peter Garrett, the two-metre tall, bald-headed former frontman of Australian rock group Midnight Oil, has been made the environment minister by the country’s newly elected Labor government. [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=10BbpGKLXqk] His band, which was very popular in South Africa in the late-1980s, sang about environmental and social injustice. “Beds are Burning”, a song about Aboringinal land rights, [...]
A chocolate-powered truck left Britain on Friday and is making its way overland to Timbuktu in Mali in an attempt to complete the first carbon-neutral trip across the Sahara. The entire 6,000km trip – which will take them through France, Spain, Morocco, Western Sahara and Mauritania on their way to Mali – will be powered [...]
Danger is looming over the horizon for the lesser flamingos of Lake Natron, one of Africa’s most spectacular birdy tourist attractions. Plans to build a massive soda ash plant on the Rift Valley lake in northern Tanzania, where up to a million of the pink birds breed, have been temporarily halted while the developers, Lake [...]
A 31,000 square kilometre area extending across eastern Gauteng and western Mpumalanga has been declared an air pollution hot spot by the minister of environmental affairs and tourism. The “Highveld Priority Area” is home to 3.6-million people and includes Witbank, Middelburg, Secunda, Standerton, Edenvale, Boksburg, Benoni and Balfour. People who looked at this item also [...]
Seventy-four percent of the JSE’s Top 40 listed companies this year participated for the first time in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), an initiative to collect information on how companies around the world are responding to climate change. The CDP annually collects climate change-related information on behalf of investment institutions that manage assets totalling $41-trillion. [...]
If you love baobabs, then Madagascar is the place to go. The island has six species of the “upside down tree”, South Africa has only one. It’s also the only place in the world you’ll find lemurs in the wild. In fact, about 70 percent of the plants and animals here are endemics (live nowhere [...]
