Mark Anderson, the ornithologist, and two of his colleagues, Julius Koen and Eric Hermann, who were suspended by the Northern Cape department of tourism, environment and conservation, may this week find out why they were suspended, the UK’s Times Online reports. The Times quotes Les Abrahams, a spokesman for the department, as saying that the [...]

This week 1,500 delegates from 160 countries have been in Ghana talking about climate change. The overall plan is to create a successor deal for the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012, that can be agreed on at a UN climate conference scheduled for 2009 in Copenhagen. So what happened in Ghana? Treevolution trawled the [...]

I’d always thought that to generate electricity from wind you’d need a great expanse of open space that the wind could howl across to turn giant turbines, but you don’t. Recently, in South Africa, I’ve come across two types of turbine that prove that you don’t need to live on a farm to have a [...]

Time to dig out the bits of old computer and broken cell phones you’ve had lying around your garage for years because Fujitsu Siemens Computers and Makro have opened an e-waste recycling hub where you can dispose of it all safely. The pilot project is at Makro’s Woodmead store in Johannesburg and people can bring [...]

South Africa is a meat-eating nation. Only in Cape Town will you get away with cooking a butternut or vegetable sosaties on a braai – anywhere else, if there’s isn’t at least chops and wors, you’ll offend your guests. But, sadly, our meat-loving ways are not environmentally friendly. AFP reports on a German study that [...]

Kevin Kelly stockpiled styrofoam packaging for five years and used it to create the Styrobot that you see pictured above. Just goes to show that with a little imagination you can reuse anything. Inspired? You can read how he did it on his website. People who looked at this item also looked at… HP cuts [...]