# NASA satellite data shows Antarctica gained ice between 2021 and 2023 due to unusually high snowfall despite ongoing global warming. While this temporary gain reversed some previous losses, experts stress it doesn’t signal a long-term trend. The overall trajectory still shows significant ice loss since 2002, largely driven by glaciers melting into warming oceans. […]
# Global warming may be increasing women’s cancer risks in the Middle East and North Africa. A study across 17 countries found that breast, ovarian, uterine, and cervical cancer rates and deaths rose with each degree Celsius of temperature increase. Ovarian cancer saw the highest rise. Scientists from the American University in Cairo have linked […]
# The City of Tshwane has partnered with Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni to tackle the rehabilitation of the Kaalspruit Catchment. The metro says that over the years, with rapid urbanisation and the increasing number of informal settlements near embankments, the river stream from Kaalspruit has deteriorated in quality. Tshwane mayor Nasiphi Moya’s spokesperson, Zintle Mahlati, says illegal […]
# Kamfersdam noord van Kimberley in die Noord-Kaap, was eens ‘n belangrike broeiplek vir kleiner flaminke, maar hulle het die dam verlaat weens jare se besoedeling van rou riool. Bewaringsgesindes sê die giftige water het die flaminke verdryf en hulle teël sedert 2020 nie meer daar nie. Die dam was een van slegs vier broeiplekke […]
# The Kamfers Dam, north of Kimberley in the Northern Cape, once a key breeding site for lesser flamingos, has been abandoned by the birds due to years of raw sewage contamination. Conservationists say the toxic water has driven the flamingos away, with breeding halted since 2020. The dam was one of only four African […]
# ‘n Sesjarige see-olifant wat vroeg vanoggend in die strate van Gordonsbaai in Kaapstad gesien is, is verdoof en sal na ‘n veilige plek verskuif word. Die sigbaar uitgeputte rob is amper ‘n kilometer van die kus gewaar waar hy met sy bolyf op ‘n geparkeerde voertuig gerus het. Amptenare van die Kaap die Goeie […]
# A six-year-old male elephant seal spotted wandering the streets of Gordon’s Bay in Cape Town early this morning has been sedated and is expected to be moved to an undisclosed location. The visibly fatigued seal was seen nearly a kilometre from the shore, even resting on a parked car. Officials from the Cape of […]
# Die plastiek-herwinningsorganisasie, Polyco en die Wes-Kaapse regering sal hul skool-herwinningsprogram vanjaar uitbrei na nog 13 skole. Elke skool sal meer as 380-duisend-rand ontvang om herwinningsentrums te bou, leerders oor herwinning op te voed en werk vir plaaslike gemeenskapslede te skep. Chantal Philander van Polyco sê die program help skole om geld te verdien met […]
# Inwoners van Gordonsbaai in Kaapstad het vanoggend wakker geword met die onverwagte gesig van ‘n see-olifant wat deur die strate beweeg – amper ‘n kilometer van die water af. Aanlyn foto’s en video’s wys die sigbaar uitgeputte rob wat stadig beweeg en selfs met sy bolyf op ‘n geparkeerde voertuig rus. Lede van die […]
