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Toxic Air: Weather service to lead ambitious R625m plan to monitor SA’s choking air quality

Tuesday at 23:35 PM, via Daily Maverick

Air pollution claims roughly 42,000 South African lives every year — yet more than half of our government-owned monitoring stations are completely offline. Now the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment has launched an ambitious new R625m proposal to overhaul this strategic grid, hand the reins over to the South African Weather Service and give a boost to environmental governance.

Israel launched deadly strike on Lebanon’s Tyre before warning

Tuesday at 21:40 PM, via Daily Maverick

BEIRUT, June 9 (Reuters) – Israel struck the historic port city of Tyre in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killing at least eight people, the Lebanese health ministry said, and minutes later ordered the evacuation of the entire city for the first time.

US sea drone rescues crew from US Army helicopter that crashed near Hormuz

Tuesday at 21:30 PM, via Daily Maverick

June 9 (Reuters) – In a first, a Navy surface drone found and rescued two crew members from an Army Apache attack helicopter that went down in waters near Oman’s coast, the U.S. military told Reuters, and President Donald Trump said the pilots were “fine.”

BOTANICAL GARDENS: Kirstenbosch: Drowning in neglected poached plants

Tuesday at 20:47 PM, via Daily Maverick

The plants were stolen from the wild, rescued by the state, then delivered into another kind of danger. Inside Kirstenbosch’s greenhouses, South Africa’s plant-poaching crisis has become a grim question: what happens when confiscation saves plants only long enough for them to die?

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