Study shows how mankind’s shiny and showy, insensitive and wasteful, ways are knocking everything off course. Even the dung beetle has trouble finding its way
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Results32Bark stripping in Newlands Forest
Being very low in nutrients, bark has no real value, except to trees. (Like rhino horn really). We have to find a solution (for the people and the trees)
Reusing 10% ‘will halve plastic waste in ocean’
A new report from WEF shows how a tiny change in the re-use of plastics would create a massive shift in what seems like an impossibly huge global problem
Water fight in the Sahel
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
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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