# ‘n Geval van ‘n vleisvretende beesbrommer-parasiet is die eerste keer in ‘n mens in Amerika gevind. Dit is opgespoor in ‘n persoon van Maryland wat uit Guatemala gereis het. Die vlieg vreet beeste en ander warmbloedige diere lewendig, met ‘n uitbreking verlede jaar in Sentraal-Amerika en Suid-Mexiko. Die vroulike beesbrommer-vlieg lê eiers in die […]
# A case of the flesh-eating screwworm parasite has been detected in a person in the United States for the first time. It was identified in a person from Maryland who had travelled from Guatemala. The flies eat cattle and other warm-blooded animals alive and an outbreak was recorded in Central America and southern Mexico […]
# The plastics recycling organisation, Polyco and Swellendam Municipality in the Western Cape have joined forces to improve recycling and stop illegal dumping. The partnership will pay residents for recyclables through the packa-ching programme, support waste collectors, and run recycling education in schools and communities. Polyco’s Chantal Philander says the goal is to turn waste […]
# Viëtnam het skole en lughawens gesluit en duisende mense ontruim voor die aankoms van die kragtige Tifoon Kajiki. Die storm het gister die suidelike Chinese eiland Hainan getref en bome omgewaai en oorstromings veroorsaak voor dit oornag die Golf van Tonkin bereik het met volgehoue windspoed van 166-kilometer per uur. Volgens Viëtnam se weersvoorpeller […]
# Vietnam closed schools, airports, and evacuated thousands of people as it braced for powerful Typhoon Kajiki to make landfall. The typhoon downed trees and soaked China’s southern Hainan Island on Sunday before moving over the Gulf of Tonkin overnight with sustained wind speeds of 166 kilometres per hour. According to Vietnam’s national weather forecast […]
# Die minister van Bosbou, Visserye en die Omgewing, Dion George, sê die nuwe regulasies om skip-tot-skip-brandstofoordrag in Suid-Afrikaanse gebiedswater te beheer, is ʼn belangrike stap om die oseane te beskerm. Die regulasies stel ʼn risiko-gebaseerde stelsel bekend om skade te voorkom wat brandstof-oordrag ter see kan veroorsaak. George sê nie-nakoming kan tot swaar strawwe […]
# Die Wêreldnatuurfonds in Suid-Afrika sê volhoubare ontwikkeling van ʼn oorgangs-mineraalbedryf is belangrik terwyl Suid-Afrika gereed maak om later vanjaar die G20-beraad aan te bied. Die Wêreldbank beraam daar sal teen 2050 ʼn 500-persent toename wees in die vraag na minerale soos grafiet en litium vir die wêreldwye oorgang na ʼn nuwe energie-orde. WWF SA […]
# Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Dion George, says the new regulations to control offshore ship-to-ship fuel transfers in South African waters are a decisive step to safeguard the oceans. The regulations introduce a risk-based system to prevent and reduce the harm that offshore ship-to-ship transfers, including bunkering, can cause to marine and […]
# Spanje se meteorologiese agentskap sê die hittegolf van 16 dae wat die land hierdie maand geteister het, was die ergste op rekord. Die hittegolf het meer as ʼn duisend lewens geëis en veldbrande veroorsaak wat steeds in die noordelike en westelike dele van die land woed. Die agentskap sê voorlopige syfers wat van drie […]
