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Implementing capacity development for disaster risk reduction as a social learning system

Abstract: Climate change can lead to changes in the frequency, intensity, spatial extent, duration and [...]

A fifth of countries worldwide at risk from ecosystem collapse as biodiversity declines

Among G20 economies, South Africa and Australia top the rankings of fragile Biodiversity and Ecosystems [...]

Help Needed for Vulnerable Households in rural areas of ‘The Oaks- Mametja’ (Limpopo Province)

South Africa has been in lockdown since late March and we have started to see [...]

AWARD Launches the RESILIM [Olifants] RESOURCE PACK!

AWARD is approaching closure of the USAID:RESILIM O programme this month. As a celebration of [...]

2021 World Food Summit in Jeopardy: Civil Society Calls for A Review

Since the 1996 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation’s (FAO’s) World Food Summit [...]

Drought Update: Flows in the Lower Olifants River reach alarmingly low levels

Flows in the lower Olifants River are declining rapidly and have reached alarmingly low levels. [...]

Mpumalanga Wetland Forum Newsletter

Each year, 2 February is celebrated as World Wetlands Day to mark the adoption of [...]

Expect higher than normal temperatures

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) remains in a moderate El Niño state and the forecast [...]

Mpumalanga Air Quality Court Action

Environmental activists are dragging the government to court over its alleged poor progress in cleaning [...]

SA at the bottom of the pile in transition towards clean energy

Highly dependent on fossil fuels and ranked 114 by World Economic Forum’s Energy Transition Index, [...]

Hats off to HAT! Invasive alien plant clearing started on inaccessible mountains in the Blyde Canyon

Due to the exceptionally rugged terrain created by the Blyde River Canyon and the Mpumalanga [...]

Human rights and the right to water in South Africa: what does it mean?

South Africa has placed the right to sufficient water as a Constitutional right in its [...]

2050 Pathways Platform Workshop

As part of the consultation on its LEDS, the Department of Environmental Affairs, in partnership [...]

Mining in the upper Blyde river catchment

Transvaal Gold Mining Estates (TGME, under Stonewall Mining) has applied for an amendment to its [...]

Drones could become one of the main drivers of agricultural growth in Senegal

Malick Diagne is the head of GeoRisk Afric, a company founded in March 2016. He [...]

South Africa is drowning in its own waste – are our regulators taking this crisis seriously?

South Africans dispose of enough municipal solid waste to fill an entire football field 10 [...]