News24 Business | OPINION | Fighting climate change in a Trumpian era
While US President Donald Trump is reversing several environmental justice programmes, the rest of the world should double up on climate efforts, writes Dr Enock Sithole.
WEDNESDAY, 02 APRIL 2025, 06:05
While US President Donald Trump is reversing several environmental justice programmes, the rest of the world should double up on climate efforts, writes Dr Enock Sithole.
The two companies hope to establish value chain for renewable fuels in South Africa.
Three data centres squatting alongside the cruise ships and freighters in French Mediterranean port Marseille are testing water-saving cooling methods by pumping out an old coal mine.
Scientists are looking to use insects to tackle the spread of invasive trees, which mainly affect east Africa.
The surge in generative artificial intelligence is being met with growing fears about the technology’s ecological footprint, one of the top questions up for discussion at a global summit in Paris in February.
Its taken 20 years but Eswatini’s first privately financed hydroelectric power plant can now begin construction, having been developed by South Africa’s ACED and EIMS Africa.
Ecologists suggest Los Angelenos replace palms, junipers and eucalyptus with trees that evolved to survive fire like California oaks.
Perpetrators of a cyberattack on the SA Weather Service’s information communication technology systems have demanded a ransom.
The world’s biggest iceberg – more than twice the size of London – could drift towards a remote island where a scientist warns it risks disrupting feeding for baby penguins and seals.
Any notion of justice, fairness, and leaving no one behind has to be considered in the context of the extremely serious implications of failing to meet climate goals, writes Emma Schuster.
The South African Weather Service said that its information and communication technology systems suffered a suspected cyberattack on Sunday evening – the second attack in two days after the first attempt failed.
US President Donald Trump has announced a range of measures that are great for America’s oil and gas industry but less great for everyone who doesn’t have a Mars exit plan, says Nick Hedley.
Six engineers successfully trekked approximately 6000 km between Nairobi, Kenya and Stellenbosch, South Africa using a motorcycle, running only on solar power.
A destabilising climate has led to a “whiplash effect” with one year being very wet, followed by one that’s very dry – and we haven’t yet figured out how to adapt to these extremes.
Former Springbok flanker, Robby Brink, and their local council are taken to task after eight crown pine trees were cut down alongside a luxury residential development.
Japan’s much-loved “tonkatsu” pork cutlets come with a mound of freshly shredded cabbage, but a surge in the price of the humble vegetable has prompted chef Katsumi Shinagawa to skimp on servings.
There are only around 40 of the animals left in the world, conservationists say.
The rocket flew for about eight minutes before SpaceX lost contact and ended its live stream.
The stage invader says he “came here for a climate demonstration, not a political view”.
Visitors have been flocking to the Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge to see the spectacle.
The six sets of siblings were all treated at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.