drought Tag

There has never been a more urgent time for Cape Town to adapt or die. Yolandi Groenewald investigates the measures city authorities are taking to survive the water woes...

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...

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...

[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...

  [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...

[caption id="attachment_3882" align="alignright" width="300"] This season's rainfall, compared to the past 35 years. © WFP-VAM[/caption] South Africa has issued a preliminary forecast of maize production for the coming harvest of 7.4...

Should game reserves intervene to save wildlife during climate change? Yolandi Groenewald took the debate to a drought-stricken protected area that has been forced to take preventative measures...

South Africa is in the grip of the worst drought since 1992. It is likely to get even worse in 2016 with the ever-increasing heat caused by El Niño, reports...