Many African countries are already struggling with heavy debt burdens. Climate change is making this worse. Africa contributes the least to global emissions ...

In construction alone, adverse weather delays are said to delay 45% of construction projects globally, costing billions each ...

Activist highlight the pollution and health problems caused by South Africa's cluster of coal-fired power stations, the most ...

A South African university has launched an anti-poaching campaign to inject the horns of rhinos with radioactive isotopes that it says are harmless for the animals ...

African countries had 14 of the world’s 67 heat extreme events last year, and several had at least three months of hotter ...

A groundbreaking new study has confirmed what President Cyril Ramaphosa said in the aftermath of South Africa’s deadliest flood disaster – that climate change played a significant role in the ...

The killing of a collared lion involved in a research project in Zimbabwe by a trophy hunter has been condemned by wildlife ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law a broad climate change act that will set caps for large emitters and require every town and city to publish an adaptation plan.

South Africa is slowly lifting out of the water – by up to two millimeters per year depending on the region. It had been assumed up to now that this phenomenon was due to mantle flow in the ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa recently signed into law a new climate change act, the first of its kind for the country. The legislation aims to both reduce the country’s greenhouse gas ...

Banner image: A southern lesser galago (Galago moholi) clings to a tree at night in the Lajuma Research Centre in South Africa. (Credit: Téo Novel-Jandet) In the “sky islands” of the Soutpansberg ...

Last year, South Korea revised down emissions targets for its industrial sector. The government is likely to argue in the hearings that it's doing everything it can to minimize climate change ...