With Cape Town’s severe drought in mind it is alarming to read in this article from The Conversation about the apparently outsized role of foreign private sector players in discussions over possible responses to the crisis at Lake Chad, including a proposal to divert water from the Congo River
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Hoping for healing after the fire
The Rhodes Memorial fire reminds us that homelessness in our city is all of our problem … and how keeping the mountain clear of invasive alien trees can help manage fires
The ‘green city in the sun’ is burning up
That’s the problem with paving over paradise
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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