Tag: climate
Vertical sea-wall structures continue to protect our coastlines from the impact of climate change
Climate change, global sea-level rise, increased storminess. These 'predictions' by scientists are fast becoming a reality. More than 35% of the global population lives...
Air pollution drops – for wrong reasons
CLIMATE activists say years of mismanagement, coupled with the Covid-19 pandemic, are behind the drop in South Africa’s air pollution levels.
According to new research...
Ships moved more than 11bn tonnes of our stuff around the globe last year,...
The shipping of goods around the world keeps economies going. But it comes at an enormous environmental cost - producing more CO2 than the...
OPINION: Prof Michael Mouse signs climate petition
TO anyone who may still doubt that the quality of “the mainstream media” has not degraded to the point of being only useful for...
OPINION: The dirty underbelly of “free energy”
FREE energy from the sun and the wind! Isn’t that a wonderful idea? And it’s clean too! Yeah, right.
No, it’s not.
So-called free clean energy...
Watch: Amazon fires rage…
Thousands of wildfires are decimating the Amazon, threatening the very existence of the world’s largest rainforest and a bulwark against climate change.
The Amazon rain...
Drought is the ‘new normal’ in Western Cape
Climate change is taking its toll in the Western Cape, according to experts, with more municipalities expected to request emergency water assistance.
This was after...
Water storage in record time
With climate change threatening our water supply around the world, finding the right water storage solution is paramount to all industrial strategy; whether in...
Santam remains steady amid tough economic climate and high claims
Santam, South Africa’s largest general insurer, today reported solid underwriting results and acceptable growth for the year ended December 2016. In a low-growth economic...
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