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Blue Label Media partners with African Bank to roll out new corporate identity across 155 buses

Copper could cure Murray & Roberts cold after De Beers diamond cough

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Data breach alert: Over 100,000 fake accounts linked to SA grant-fraud claim

News24 journalists take top honours in 2024 Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards

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Prince William, Prince of Wales meets the 2024 Earthshot Prize Finalists at the Kirstenbosch Gardens, in Cape Town, South Africa, 6 November 2024. Victoria Jones/Pool via Reuters

2024 Earthshot Prize - the 5 winners of £1m

Fishers in Port Nolloth are opposing TotalEnergies’ bid to explore for gas and oil off the West Coast. Photo: Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp

Court bid to block TotalEnergies gas project off West Coast

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Invasive pine trees in the Western Cape have affected lizards causing their numbers to drop significantly. Author supplied

Invasive plants have a much bigger impact than we imagine

Susana Clusella-Trullas and Raquel A Garcia 14 Sep 2017

FEDHASA calls on members to become innovative in saving water

14 Sep 2017

#InnovationMonth: Aerobotics, RanMarine teams up on river water management in #cocreate2Accelerate

#InnovationMonth: Aerobotics, RanMarine teams up on river water management in #cocreate2Accelerate

Cari Coetzee 13 Sep 2017

The Table Bay brings green consciousness to employees, educates on R&R

13 Sep 2017

Art Curator Gallery to host Art of Conservation project

Art Curator Gallery to host Art of Conservation project

12 Sep 2017

SANParks' 2017 Kudu Awards open for entries

SANParks' 2017 Kudu Awards open for entries

11 Sep 2017

Africa's ambitious new biodiversity laws come with teeth, will protect people too

Africa's ambitious new biodiversity laws come with teeth, will protect people too

Willem Daniel Lubbe 11 Sep 2017

Wildlife crime pays off big time

Wildlife crime pays off big time

Sipho Mabena 11 Sep 2017

Corruption fuelling ivory trade in central Africa: study

8 Sep 2017

Protecting Africa's drylands key to the continent's future

Protecting Africa's drylands key to the continent's future

Sam Otieno 7 Sep 2017

Pacific corals in 'worrying' state: researchers

Pacific corals in 'worrying' state: researchers

7 Sep 2017

How Nigeria is wasting its rich water resources

How Nigeria is wasting its rich water resources

Nelson Odume and Andrew Slaughter 6 Sep 2017

Taking the pulse of the natural world with IoT

Taking the pulse of the natural world with IoT

Reshaad Sha 5 Sep 2017

Robert Richards. Image:

From bush to soap: Finding a sustainable solution to a problematic shrub

4 Sep 2017

Conservation icon defends rhino baron

Conservation icon defends rhino baron

Tony Carnie 1 Sep 2017

Waiting to inhale: Radiation and living near mines

Waiting to inhale: Radiation and living near mines

1 Sep 2017

South Africa's first online rhino horn auction ends in risky impasse

South Africa's first online rhino horn auction ends in risky impasse

Keith Somerville 30 Aug 2017

How scientists can help make the sustainable development goals a reality

How scientists can help make the sustainable development goals a reality

Tolullah Oni 29 Aug 2017

FredD via - Fishermen on their traditional boats near Shimoni (Kenya)

What Kenya's government can do to protect, and benefit from, ocean resources

David Obura 28 Aug 2017

Grootbos accommodation, forest lodge exterior

Award-winning Grootbos Private Nature Reserve certified by Fair Trade Tourism

25 Aug 2017

The dangers of being a defender of environmental justice in South Africa

The dangers of being a defender of environmental justice in South Africa

Kirsten Youens 25 Aug 2017

Agriculture a culprit in global warming, says US research

Agriculture a culprit in global warming, says US research

Ellen Wulfhorst 25 Aug 2017

Photograph by Michael Adams

EWT bids to protect world's rarest snake in new Algoa Bay game reserve

Guy Rogers 24 Aug 2017

The lost opportunity to protect the environment - NEMA

Vanessa Jacklin-Levin 23 Aug 2017

Audit into stockpiles of rhino horn underway

Audit into stockpiles of rhino horn underway

23 Aug 2017

SA's first online rhino horn auction set to open

SA's first online rhino horn auction set to open

23 Aug 2017

2017 Rhino Conservation Awards winners announced

2017 Rhino Conservation Awards winners announced

22 Aug 2017

South Africa gives go-ahead to rhino horn auction

South Africa gives go-ahead to rhino horn auction

21 Aug 2017

Leopard killer faces charges for shooting predator on reserve

Gareth Wilson 18 Aug 2017

Wildlife and environmental management top priority at Tomjachu Bush Retreat

18 Aug 2017

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Invasive pine trees in the Western Cape have affected lizards causing their numbers to drop significantly. Author supplied

Invasive plants have a much bigger impact than we imagine

Susana Clusella-Trullas and Raquel A Garcia 14 Sep 2017

FEDHASA calls on members to become innovative in saving water

14 Sep 2017

#InnovationMonth: Aerobotics, RanMarine teams up on river water management in #cocreate2Accelerate

#InnovationMonth: Aerobotics, RanMarine teams up on river water management in #cocreate2Accelerate

Cari Coetzee 13 Sep 2017

The Table Bay brings green consciousness to employees, educates on R&R

13 Sep 2017

Art Curator Gallery to host Art of Conservation project

Art Curator Gallery to host Art of Conservation project

12 Sep 2017

SANParks' 2017 Kudu Awards open for entries

SANParks' 2017 Kudu Awards open for entries

11 Sep 2017

Africa's ambitious new biodiversity laws come with teeth, will protect people too

Africa's ambitious new biodiversity laws come with teeth, will protect people too

Willem Daniel Lubbe 11 Sep 2017

Wildlife crime pays off big time

Wildlife crime pays off big time

Sipho Mabena 11 Sep 2017

Corruption fuelling ivory trade in central Africa: study

8 Sep 2017

Protecting Africa's drylands key to the continent's future

Protecting Africa's drylands key to the continent's future

Sam Otieno 7 Sep 2017

Pacific corals in 'worrying' state: researchers

Pacific corals in 'worrying' state: researchers

7 Sep 2017

How Nigeria is wasting its rich water resources

How Nigeria is wasting its rich water resources

Nelson Odume and Andrew Slaughter 6 Sep 2017

Taking the pulse of the natural world with IoT

Taking the pulse of the natural world with IoT

Reshaad Sha 5 Sep 2017

Robert Richards. Image:

From bush to soap: Finding a sustainable solution to a problematic shrub

4 Sep 2017

Conservation icon defends rhino baron

Conservation icon defends rhino baron

Tony Carnie 1 Sep 2017

Waiting to inhale: Radiation and living near mines

Waiting to inhale: Radiation and living near mines

1 Sep 2017

South Africa's first online rhino horn auction ends in risky impasse

South Africa's first online rhino horn auction ends in risky impasse

Keith Somerville 30 Aug 2017

How scientists can help make the sustainable development goals a reality

How scientists can help make the sustainable development goals a reality

Tolullah Oni 29 Aug 2017

FredD via - Fishermen on their traditional boats near Shimoni (Kenya)

What Kenya's government can do to protect, and benefit from, ocean resources

David Obura 28 Aug 2017

Grootbos accommodation, forest lodge exterior

Award-winning Grootbos Private Nature Reserve certified by Fair Trade Tourism

25 Aug 2017

The dangers of being a defender of environmental justice in South Africa

The dangers of being a defender of environmental justice in South Africa

Kirsten Youens 25 Aug 2017

Agriculture a culprit in global warming, says US research

Agriculture a culprit in global warming, says US research

Ellen Wulfhorst 25 Aug 2017

Photograph by Michael Adams

EWT bids to protect world's rarest snake in new Algoa Bay game reserve

Guy Rogers 24 Aug 2017

The lost opportunity to protect the environment - NEMA

Vanessa Jacklin-Levin 23 Aug 2017

Audit into stockpiles of rhino horn underway

Audit into stockpiles of rhino horn underway

23 Aug 2017

SA's first online rhino horn auction set to open

SA's first online rhino horn auction set to open

23 Aug 2017

2017 Rhino Conservation Awards winners announced

2017 Rhino Conservation Awards winners announced

22 Aug 2017

South Africa gives go-ahead to rhino horn auction

South Africa gives go-ahead to rhino horn auction

21 Aug 2017

Leopard killer faces charges for shooting predator on reserve

Gareth Wilson 18 Aug 2017

Wildlife and environmental management top priority at Tomjachu Bush Retreat

18 Aug 2017

New study: Pesticides increase extinction risk for bumblebee populations

Mark Brown 16 Aug 2017

Three ways to improve commercial shipping's environmental footprint

Three ways to improve commercial shipping's environmental footprint

Martina Doblin 16 Aug 2017

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How some African farmers are responding to climate change and what we can learn from them

15 Aug 2017

Garden Route women show their mettle

Garden Route women show their mettle

15 Aug 2017

Belvedere Vodka wins gold at international CSR awards

Belvedere Vodka wins gold at international CSR awards

15 Aug 2017

How to save zoos? Focus on education, conservation

How to save zoos? Focus on education, conservation

Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde 14 Aug 2017

Ecotourism camps flourish through impact investment

11 Aug 2017

Forest conservation approaches must recognise the rights of local people

Forest conservation approaches must recognise the rights of local people

Sarobidy Rakotonarivo and Neal Hockley 11 Aug 2017

3D-printing tech for the marine world could save coral reefs

3D-printing tech for the marine world could save coral reefs

10 Aug 2017

The grey long-eared bat. Anton Alberdi / Bat conservation trust, Author provided

How to set conservation priorities in response to climate change

Orly Razgour 7 Aug 2017