How to make wine without water
South Africa is one of the world's leading wine producers, 95% of it in the Western Cape. Yolandi Groenewald investigates the delicate tightrope wine farmers have to negotiate in adapting...
16 November, 2016
ClimaTracker Investigations
Bring on the sun
Terence Govender, vice-president of development at the giant SolarReserve project in the Northern Cape, talks to Tholakele Nene about the benefits of investing in renewable energy [caption id="attachment_8455" align="alignnone" width="1024"] More than...
19 July, 2016
Northern Cape thrives on sunshine
Tholakele Nene finds out how giant solar power projects are making a difference to rural lives affected by climate change in semi-desert areas of the Northern Cape...
04 July, 2016
Smart innovations boost resilience to drought
By Locadia Mavhudzi Approximately 4.5-million people, more than 30% of Zimbabwe’s population, will be in need of food aid by next March, according to recent estimates by the United Nations Development...
24 June, 2016
Harry the desert lion a victim of Namibia’s drought
[caption id="attachment_3878" align="alignright" width="300"] The Five Musketeers are desert-adapted lions that manage to survive in the incredibly harsh conditions of the Kunene rock desert and adjoining Skeleton Coast Park. Photo...
17 June, 2016
Lake Malawi in danger
A multimedia investigation by Mark Olalde exposes the threats Lake Malawi faces from climate change and overuse ...
23 February, 2016
Saving the world’s oldest protected estuary
A huge environmental restoration project aims to save one of the world’s most important estuaries threatened by climate change. Report by Yolandi Groenewald...
22 February, 2016
The heat is on Africa’s health
[caption id="attachment_53" align="alignright" width="248"] Leading message from participants in the annual People's Climate March in New York. Photo © https://environment.yale.edu/climate-communication/[/caption] Heat exhaustion is likely to occur when the human body's temperature...
16 February, 2016
SA makes global history with highest temperatures
[caption id="attachment_6287" align="alignnone" width="2836"] October 27 2015 will be remembered as the record-breaking hottest October day on Earth.[/caption] This new high was set in Vredendal, a small town in the Western...
16 February, 2016
2015 the hottest year ever recorded
[caption id="attachment_3876" align="alignright" width="300"] The study projects an increase in warmer temperatures of 4-6 ℃ over the subtropics and 3-5 ℃ over the tropics by the end of the century....
16 February, 2016