That’s the problem with paving over paradise
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Kilimanjaro burning
Fires shaped Mount Kilimanjaro’s unique environment. Now they threaten it
We have water, let’s spray some around
Switching on massive fountains in a deserted city centre as a drought comes to end seems like total madness
Book review: Seeing the land
… capturing “the haunting pull of an opaque war, still inscribed on the land … their work is done in the wake of traumatic pasts and poses questions about the relationship of the past to the future …
We have one problem: us
Climate change, biodiversity loss and other global ills share root causes Mary Scholes, University of the Witwatersrand and Robert (Bob) Scholes, University of the Witwatersrand The
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Time travel and the ancient crocs of the Cape
In this weird time of Covid-19 and lockdown, this article Fossil track sites tell the story of ancient crocodiles in southern Africa from The Conversation was
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Maybe a little good will come (for wildlife) from this pandemic
Covid-19 shows that illegal wildlife trade is a public health issue Simon Evans, Anglia Ruskin University There will be few positives to take from coronavirus. But
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The grocery store we’ve all been waiting for
I am just back from my first visit to Nude Foods, the grocery store we have all been waiting for! I do mean all of us.
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Spekbombing and other suburban dreams
As the windy season gets underway in the Cape of Hope and Storms we sit on a couple of ticking timebombs, one of them a natural
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Precious drinking water running down the toilet
As water experts gather for seminars to discuss the Cape’s crisis and pop groups record songs to help people manage the time they spend in the
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