Unreliable coal power system is inhibiting economic growth and the country needs help to make transition
The 28 skull fragments and six teeth were found in a very narrow passage 12m beyond the Dinaledi chamber, the site where the first H. naledi remains were found ...
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Ford, the minister responsible for Africa within the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, was in SA last week
US deputy climate envoy Jonathan Pershing says SA needs grant funding and concessional loans to assist with its transition to clean energy
The evidence is that Southern Africa is warming twice as fast as the average for the rest of the globe
Experts differ on the use of hydrogen to replace fossil-fuel engines
Groups want tougher action to improve air quality
SANParks says it is closer to implementing lie detector tests, but no date has been set yet
High-level panel found the practice damages the tourism industry and is not good for conservation
Sars’s customs unit has made its fourth rhino horn bust since July 2020
There are an estimated 12,000 captive lions in the country, while fewer than 10,000 wild lions roam the continent
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna developed the CRISPR/Cas9 tool to edit the DNA of animals, plants and micro-organisms with precision
Arctic sea ice reached its second-lowest extent for September, continuing a fast decline since satellites started monitoring the ice in 1979
Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez win the 2020 Nobel for discoveries ‘about the most exotic phenomena in the universe, the black hole’
Two Americans and a Briton share the award for decades-old work on a pathogen that afflicts 78-million people a year
SA’s new space infrastructure hub will boost local space industry capabilities with Sansa having Africa’s only satellite engineering proficiency
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