For those who followed us throughout last year, you would have noticed a number of articles dealing with the ongoing water crisis that is currently gripping the Eastern Cape. Thanks to a crippling drought, the accelerating climate crisis…
Let’s just get this out the way right now, Stroop: Journey into the rhino horn war is not a happy film. There is no happy ending, it will not make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Quite the opposite, in fact. However, it is without a…
SA’s indigenous coastal forests are a massive carbon sink that could play a key role in teaching the world how to combat global warming. Geography professor Erica Smithwick, of Pennsylvania State University in the US, analysed the carbon…
The department of water and sanitation is calling on community members to work hard to protect groundwater in order to help minimise the effects of the ongoing drought, and climate change. According to a statement released by the…
Last weekend’s torrential downpour was no doubt a welcome relief to many in an area that has been gripped by increasingly dry weather. They say it doesn’t rain but it pours, and last weekend that certainly proved to be the case. However,…
As a largely coastal area, BCM assures us that we aren’t in are not facing a drought crisis yet but that’s no reason to not start saving water now. There are a number of ways in which that households can become more water- wise. Residents…
WATER is a precious resource, as we in South Africa know all too well. The memory of Day Zero is still fresh in our minds and while we came out safely on the other side in the end, fate does not like being taunted a second time. As…
THE six-month-old African crowned eagle found injured last week has recently been release back to its parents, returning to its nest. After some time spent at the Nahoon Bird and Animal clinic being monitored daily, it was decided that…
