Contributor ReportsEmperor penguin 'prepares to take photo'
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Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Thu Nov 26 15:15:09 -0800 2009 | green-news
This group of Emperor penguins appear to be lining up for a photograph as their companion "prepares" to take the shot through the viewfinder. Photographer David Schultz found the penguin looking through the viewfinder of his camera in Antarctica as...
ReachBaboon Fred Eating a Piece of Fruit After Breaking into Car
Posted by: WordSlinger
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Wed Nov 25 09:17:31 -0800 2009 | green-news
SOUTH AFRICA - Baboon Fred sits inside a car eating a piece of fruit on the outskirts of Cape Town after breaking inside the car. Visitors heading to South Africa for the 2010 World Cup are worried about the high...
CLIMATE CHANGE: Africa In the Global Carbon Trade
Source: Inter Press Service
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Sun Nov 15 15:58:22 -0800 2009 | green-news
Carbon trading, as promoted by the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), has become a key global strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Based on what some experts call "free market environmentalism", Kyoto signatories, who have agreed to a specific...
Environmental Disaster Averted Off Cape Town
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ChristopherSzabo
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Sun Oct 04 14:14:53 -0700 2009 | green-news
South African disaster managers say they are confident they can remove oil from a stricken cargo ship in Cape Town’s Table Bay. The Turkish ship Seli 1 ran aground Tuesday and the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) took off the...
Recusant Picadores Circle the IPCC
Source: Canadian Free Press
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Mon Nov 30 05:28:24 -0800 2009 | green-news
The Hadley Research Centre computer hacking is a watershed event in human history. It is during pivotal times of crisis, when there is moral clarity, which have always defined our civilized world. During these times, the prior moralities form a...
AfDB loans SAfrica's Eskom $2.8 bln for Medupi plant
Source: International Business Times
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Thu Nov 26 09:10:33 -0800 2009 | green-news
The African Development Bank (AfDB) said on Thursday it had loaned South African state owned utility Eskom 1.86 billion euros ($2.81 billion) to finance the construction of the Medupi power project. The bank said the 4,800 megawatt Medupi power plant...
Will Karoo declare disaster?
Source: I Africa
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Tue Nov 24 01:07:53 -0800 2009 | green-news
Several Karoo towns are grappling with severe water shortages. The last rain to fall in the main dam's catchment area was almost two years ago...Beaufort West Municipal manager Jafta Booysen says they've had to enforce water restrictions. "When the rain...
Pollution, overfishing, climate change affect penguins
Source: Washington Post
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Mon Nov 23 20:10:41 -0800 2009 | green-news
The Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds -- a rehabilitation center complete with small swimming pools and medical files on all of its patients -- is where African penguins come to get better. There are penguins that...
Survival of the best
Source: News 24
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Fri Nov 20 04:29:31 -0800 2009 | green-news
The man who, sometime in 1870, shot and killed the last wild quagga? It took 30 years, from 1840, during the mass migration of European colonisers in sub-Saharan Africa, for the plains' zebra to be entirely eradicated from the wild....
Courts fires 'arson'
Source: I Africa
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Thu Nov 19 06:44:51 -0800 2009 | green-news
The conclusion was drawn following the completion of a forensic investigation. The last fire was in the same court where ex-Ekurhuleni metro police chief Robert McBride's drunken driving trial was heard.
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