# President Donald Trump’s administration has cancelled funding for the US Global Change Research Programme, an entity that produces the federal government’s climate change study. America’s Climate Assessment is published approximately every four years and is the country’s broadest assessment of current climate change impacts and climate science. According to experts, the assessment plays a […]
# The Green Connection and Natural Justice have formally lodged objections against exploratory oil and gas surveys in Blocks 9 and 11B/12B, of the Outeniqua Basin in the Western Cape. The organisations argue that the exploration, development, and downstream use of oil and gas resources will result in unacceptable significant emissions of greenhouse gases. The […]
# The North West Health Department is on high alert after confirming a cholera case in the Bojanala District. The patient, who recently consumed fish caught from the Vaal River while vacationing in Limpopo, has been admitted and isolated at Life Peglarae Hospital in Rustenburg. The department’s Tebogo Lekgethwane says the source is being investigated, […]
# Die Department van Gesondheid in Noordwes is op hoë gereedheid nadat ‘n geval van cholera in die Bojanala-distrik bevestig is. Die pasiënt, wat onlangs vis uit die Vaalrivier geëet tydens ‘n vakansie in Limpopo, is in afsondering in die Life Peglarae Hospitaal in Rustenburg. Tebogo Lekgethwane van die departement sê die oorsprong word ondersoek […]
# Die aantal rysproduserende lande word al hoe minder en kenners waarsku dat klimaatsontwrigting toekomstige wêreldvoorraad kan bedreig. Dit volg te midde van berigte dat Maleisiese rysproduksie van 71-persent to 56-persent gedaal het weens klimaatsverandering. Dit dwing die land om meer rys van Kambodja, Viëtnam en Thailand in te voer. Maleisië verbruik meer as 2,7-miljoen […]
# As the number of rice-producing countries gets fewer, experts are warning that climate disruptions could threaten future global supply. This comes amid reports of Malaysia’s rice production dropping from 71-percent to 56-percent due to climate change. This has forced the country to rely more on imports from Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand. Malaysia uses over […]
# ‘n Groot aantal lewensgrootte dierepoppe wat van herwinde materiale gemaak is, gaan ‘n reis van 20-duisend-kilometer van Kinshasa in die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo na die Arktiese sirkel onderneem. Dit is om bewustheid oor natuurlewe en die bedreiging van aardverwarming te verhoog. Die produksie is ‘n vennootskap van die Ukwanda Puppets and Design Art […]
# Die DA in Gauteng sê hy gaan die LUR vir Omgewingsake, Shyla Peters, skriftelik versoek om dringend in te gryp om Roodepoort se stukkende rioolpype te herstel wat inwoners se gesondheid en die omgewing in gevaar stel. Die DA het onlangs tydens ‘n oorsiginspeksie ontdek dat ‘n rioolpyp wat voorheen tydens ‘n storm in […]
# The DA in Gauteng says it will write to Environmental Affairs MEC, Shyla Peters, seeking urgent intervention to fix Roodepoort’s broken sewage pipe, which puts residents’ health and the environment at risk. During a recent oversight inspection, the DA discovered that a sewage pipe, previously damaged during a storm in 2022, had broken once […]
