Equity takes centre stage
Source: IRIN
Johannesburg :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-30 08:53:51 -0700 | green-news
As aid officials haggle over ways to reduce developing countries' disasters risks, they are increasingly looking to target the inequalities that make some communities more vulnerable than others. These inequalities fell under the spotlight at the recently concluded Global Platform...
Responding to Namibia's drought crisis
Source: IRIN
Johannesburg :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-30 06:59:00 -0700 | green-news
Namibia, already the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa, is experiencing a severe drought, with some regions receiving the lowest seasonal rainfall in three decades, according to figures released by the country's meteorological service this week...Government has declared an emergency not...
SA 'citizen scientists' share online
Source: News 24
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-29 07:28:03 -0700 | green-news
A southern African nature sharing website is gaining momentum with over 50 000 observations as citizen scientists' contribute to the online project. Spot southern Africa was launched in 2011 and gives nature enthusiasts the opportunity to share knowledge, learn, and...
This winter will be different - Eskom
Source: News 24
Bloemfontein :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-28 06:45:12 -0700 | green-news
Thousands more people need to switch off appliances during peak demand periods to help ease the national electricity load this winter, Eskom said on Tuesday. "This winter will be different," the power utility's Free State general manager Lindi Mthombeni told...
Olifants River polluted
Source: News 24
Stellenbosch :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-28 06:46:12 -0700 | green-news
Contaminants in the catchment area of the Olifants River pose a serious risk to South Africa's food production, agricultural exports, and human health, Beeld reported on Tuesday. Universities of Pretoria and Stellenbosch, the water affairs department, and the Mpumalanga Parks...
Scrap tyre plan set to drive jobs
Source: News 24
Pretoria :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-27 08:32:47 -0700 | green-news
Civic body Sanco and the environmental affairs department have joined forces to implement a programme to get rid of waste tyres. This was being done in terms of the department's Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of SA (Redisa), the two...
Alpine Fault earthquake exercise to test local civil defence (Fuseworks)
Source: Xtra News
Queenstown :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-26 15:39:46 -0700 | green-news
Exercise Te Ripahapa, based on a large-scale rupture of the Alpine Fault, will take place from 9am to 9pm on Wednesday May 29, 2013. Queenstown Lakes District Council emergency management officer Jon Mitchell said the exercise had real relevance for...
Source of life running out
Source: News 24
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-26 14:41:22 -0700 | green-news
The majority of people on Earth people will face severe water shortages within a generation or two if pollution and waste continues unabated, scientists warned at a conference in Bonn on Friday. "This handicap will be self-inflicted and is, we...
How our ancestors started to walk on two feet
Source: NewKerala
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-26 00:36:04 -0700 | green-news
The researchers said that our upright gait may have its origins in the rugged landscape of East and South Africa which was shaped during the Pliocene epoch by volcanoes and shifting tectonic plates. Hominins, our early forebears, would have been...
Climate 'spurred human innovation'
Source: BBC
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-22 10:54:49 -0700 | green-news
Climate change 'spurred modern human behaviour' Sites in southern Africa preserve a rich record of early human culture Abrupt climate change in Africa helped trigger technological and cultural advances in early modern humans, according to new research.
South Africa: Adverts Target Rhino Horn Consumers
Source: Africa Headlines
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-21 21:18:08 -0700 | green-news
WWF-SA is supporting the first comprehensive, detailed research into rhino horn consumers in Vietnam in an effort to better understand the complexities of this market and guide future campaigns. "This will also benefit the implementation of the action plan for...
Africa: SA-DRC Pact Paves Way for Mega Hydro-Electric Plant
Source: Africa Headlines
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-20 21:53:31 -0700 | green-news
With South Africa confirmed as a key partner, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has announced October 2015 as the launch date for construction of the first phase of what could eventually be the largest hydroelectric plant in the world....
Princes Call For Illegal Wildlife Trade Ban
Source: Sky News
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-20 18:43:24 -0700 | green-news
Along with Environment Secretary Owen Paterson they will tell delegates from around the world that the trade presents a grave threat not only to the natural world, but also to global security. The conference will hear that both black and...
Village loses court fight against big oil
Source: News 24
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-20 14:15:40 -0700 | green-news
Perched at the tip of an Arctic barrier reef in harsh northwestern Alaska, a tiny village took on big oil for causing the climate change that is eroding its shores, but lost its court fight Monday. The US Supreme Court...
Nasa satellite captures stunning 6,000-mile-long panoramic photo of Earth in just 15 minutes
Source: Mail Online UK
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-20 04:07:43 -0700 | green-news
The satellite takes just 20 minutes to complete one orbit of the planet. It is the eighth satellite of its kind to orbit the Earth and will soon be renamed Landsat 8. The first satellie, known as Landsat 1 or...
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