# Eskom CEO Dan Marokane says they are seeking to integrate cleaner generation into its coal-heavy mix and reduce its overall emissions by 40-percent. The power utility currently has a five-gigawatt pipeline of projects at various stages of development on the sites of six coal power stations. This includes the Komati Power Station in Mpumalanga, […]
# The United Nations Children’s Fund says climate change is no longer a distant threat for children in Nepal and the Maldives, but it’s a daily reality. This is from landslides tearing through mountain villages, washing away homes and farms, and rising seas surging over island shorelines, threatening to swallow entire communities. UNICEF representative in […]
# Die Nasionale Seereddingsinstituut moedig Suid-Afrikaners aan om op hierdie wintersonstilstand, die langste nag van die jaar op 21 Junie, ‘n ysbad te neem in die see of in ‘n bak ysige water, as ‘n simboliese uitdaging om lewensreddingspogings te ondersteun. Die geleentheid samel geld in vir reddingsaksies, swemopleiding, en onderrig oor waterveiligheid. Van vrywilligers […]
# The National Sea Rescue Institute is calling on South Africans to take the Winter Solstice Plunge on 21 June, which is also the longest night of the year. South Africans are urged to take a sea dive or a bucket of icy water as a symbolic challenge supporting life saving missions. The event raises […]
# SANParke het godsdienstige groepe beboet wat onwettig vuur gemaak het in die Tafelberg Nasionale Park naby Boyes-rylaan en Peck’s-vallei in Kaapstad. Veldwagters het verskeie groepe gevind wat regulasies vir brandveiligheid oortree en hulle van die terrein verwyder. ‘n Woordvoerder, JP Louw, sê die brand is onder beheer en geen skade is aan eiendom aangemeld […]
# Studente en inwoners van Kaapstad het aan die 2025 City Nature Challenge deelgeneem om meer as drieduisend-500 spesies in stedelike en mariene ruimtes aan te teken. Die deelnemers het 36-duisend waarnemings aangemeld, wat van kelpwoude tot stadstuine insluit en wat die metro 12de wêreldwyd plaas. Die geleentheid waarin die publiek by wetenskap betrek word, […]
# SANParks has fined religious groups for illegally starting fires in Table Mountain National Park near Boyes Drive and Peck’s Valley in Cape Town. Rangers found multiple groups violating fire safety rules and removed them from the site. Spokesperson JP Louw confirmed that the fire is now contained, with no property damage reported. One volunteer […]
# Cape Town students and residents have taken part in the 2025 City Nature Challenge. The initiative is aimed at documenting more than three-thousand-500 species across urban and marine spaces. From kelp forests to city gardens, the participants contributed 36-thousand observations, placing the metro 12th globally. The citizen-science event promotes environmental awareness and supports conservation […]
# Die etioloog en bewaringskundige, Jane Goodall, se sjimpansee-bewaringsprojek in Tanzanië ondervind ‘n groot finansiële terugslag nadat die Amerikaanse Agentskap vir Internasionale Ontwikkeling sy beloofde befondsing van 548-miljoen-rand onttrek het. Die Hoop deur Aksie-projek is in 2023 gestig om bedreigde sjimpansees te beskerm deur die aanplanting van woude en gemeenskapsgeleide metodiek. Die algehele sjimpansee-bevolking het […]