# ’n Switserse studie wat in Nature gepubliseer is, het onthul dat menslike aktiwiteit gelei het tot ’n afname van byna 20-persent in globale biodiversiteit. Navorsers het data van twee-duisend-100 studies ontleed en 50-duisend bewerkte en ongerepte gebiede vergelyk. Die studie het habitatverandering, hulpbronontginning, klimaatsverandering, besoedeling en indringerspesies as die vyf sleuteldrywers geïdentifiseer. Die navorsers […]
# With effect from 2028, ships will face a global one-thousand-800-rand per-ton carbon tax unless they use cleaner fuel or contribute to the net-zero fund. The deal, signed by over 60 countries through the International Maritime Organisation, aims to reduce ship emissions, which make up three-percent of global greenhouse gases. A stricter fuel rule and […]
# A Swiss study published in Nature has revealed that human activity has led to a nearly 20-percent drop in global biodiversity. Researchers analysed data from two-thousand-100 studies, comparing 50-thousand human-affected and unaffected sites. The study identified habitat change, resource exploitation, climate change, pollution, and invasive species as the five key drivers. Meanwhile, the researchers […]
# Die Departement van Water en Sanitasie sê hy gaan voort met die beheerde vrylating van water uit die Vaal- en die Bloemhofdam om stygende watervlakke te verlaag. Die uitvloei van water uit die Bloemhofdam het tot 104,96-persent afgeneem. Die departement se woordvoerder, Wisane Mavasa, sê vyf van die Vaaldam se sluise bly oop:
# The Department of Water and Sanitation says it is continuing with controlled water releases out of the Vaal and the Bloemhof Dam to reduce rising water levels. Water outflows have decreased to 104.96-percent at the Bloemhof Dam. The department’s spokesperson, Wisane Mavasa, says the five sluice gates at the Vaal Dam remain open:
# Owerhede in Indië se Kuno Nasionale Park het ’n boswerker weer in diens gestel nadat hy geskors is toe ‘n video waarin hy water aan ’n jagluiperd en haar welpies gee het, soos ‘n veldbrand versprei het. Satyanarayan Gurjar sê hy kon sien die jagluiperds was dors, maar het instruksies oortree wat bepaal het […]
# Authorities in India’s Kuno National Park have reinstated a forest worker who was suspended after he was seen offering water to a cheetah and her cubs in a viral video. Satyanarayan Gurjar said he could see the cheetahs were thirsty but violated instructions which said only authorised personnel could go near the big cats. […]
# Werkers is aangesê om vinnig huis toe te gaan, skole is gesluit en buitelugbedrywighede is gekanseleer terwyl noordelike China vir stormsterk wind hierdie naweek voorberei. Dit word verwag dat wind van tot 150-kilometer-per-uur die noorde van die land van vandag af tot Sondag sal tref, terwyl ’n koue draaikolk suidooswaarts vanaf Mongolië beweeg. Sterk […]
# Workers have been told to hurry home, classes have been suspended and outdoor events have been cancelled as northern China braces for extreme winds this weekend. Winds reaching 150 kilometres per hour are expected to sweep the north of the country from today till Sunday, as a cold vortex moves southeast from Mongolia. Strong […]
