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DURBAN, South Africa — Get paid to pee. That’s the deal on offer in the South African city of Durban, where the city is looking to buy liquid waste to encourage residents to use dry toilets. Aiming to improve hygiene and save money, the port city has installed in home gardens about 90,000 toilets that don’t [...] Welkom – Four sites in Welkom where tons of illegal medical waste was dumped received a clean bill of health from the Green Scorpions on Wednesday. An independent environmental hydro-geologist Richie Morris said some 18 600 tons of soil and medical waste was removed from the four Welkom sites in an operation costing R53m. “The main burial [...] Do the words “energy efficiency” conjure up images of you and the family shivering in a dark room? They shouldn’t. South Africa’s energy supply emergency may have made us worry that we were headed for the “Dark” Ages unless we got rid of every single appliance we own, but the truth is we can make [...] Johannesburg – The Green Scorpions are conducting inspections around the country as part of a national environmental law compliance campaign, they said on Monday. Officially known as the Environmental Management Inspectorate, they had already paid visits to sites in KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State and were moving to the Eastern Cape, spokesperson Roopa Singh said in [...] South Africa – South Africa’s plan to build what could become the world’s biggest solar project has drawn keen interest from investors even though it is still in its infancy. An official said today that more than 400 investors and solar industry insiders from around the world converged on the arid town of Upington, Northern Cape [...] Andreas Späth Reading, thinking and writing about the environment is terrifying business. Not a day goes by without another horror story – an oil spill, a disappearing species, shrinking rainforests and melting glaciers. It’s enough to make you want to throw in the towel and let someone else worry about the mess. But that’s not an [...] Environment and Water Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica has apologised to the residents around the Hartbeespoort Dam west of Pretoria for the poor water quality. She visited the area on Wednesday to see the problem for herself and promised swift action in curbing the pollution problem. Sonjica said the polluted water is flowing into the dam from upstream, [...] The climate of the world varies from one decade to another, and a changing climate is natural and expected. However, there is a concern that the human industrial and development activities of the past two centuries have caused changes over and above natural variation… What is climate change?Climate change is the natural cycle through which the [...] |
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