HEAT ALERT South Africa set to face its hottest summer on record 6 min 27 By Abigail Baard and Julia Evans
PARIS AGREEMENT OP-ED COP28 in Dubai must send signals of an urgent step-up in action on climate change 4 min 2 By Harald Winkler
HEATWAVE Deadly climate change-induced furnace strikes in Sahel and West Africa 6 min 0 By Kristin Engel
ENVIRONMENT PIONEER ‘Never fear failure’ says Green Cities veteran Debra Roberts, clocking out after 40-year dream job 9 min 2 By Tony Carnie
LOOKING AHEAD Too damn hot — what to expect as global climate crisis heats up in 2024 9 min 19 By Julia Evans
COP28 Climate Loss and Damage Fund entrenches Africa as beneficiaries — but some believe it’s a wrong turn 7 min 2 By Julia Evans
COP28 Climate change Goal on Adaptation framework still a bone of contention between Global South and North 7 min 1 By Julia Evans
THE CONVERSATION COP28 — Earth’s frozen regions are in trouble and we’re already seeing the consequences 5 min 0 By Timothy Naish
THE BIGGER PICTURE On the fence about climate change? We check the facts with scientific experts 7 min 0 By Julia Evans
PAPAL PLEA Pope Francis lambasts climate change deniers, corporations and politicians, warns of planet's ‘breaking point’ 3 min 4 By Philip Pullella, Reuters
CLIMATE CRISIS Earth could exceed 1.5°C ‘dangerous climate change’ threshold by December 2034 – WHO 5 min 5 By Ethan van Diemen
GROUNDUP UK professor Jim Skea elected chair of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change at critical juncture 2 min 0 By Matthew Hirsch
ISS TODAY OP-ED Rising sea levels threaten West Africa’s low-lying coasts and ecosystems 4 min 0 By Ilhan Dahir and David Willima
WORLD OCEANS DAY OP-ED Reversing the tide — it’s not too late to save our marine resources 5 min 0 By Courtney Gardiner
THE HOT SEAT South African scientist Debra Roberts nominated to head world expert body on climate crisis 4 min 3 By Tony Carnie
MINISTERIAL DEFLECTION OP-ED Are environmental NGOs anti-development, as Gwede Mantashe claims? Wessa responds 6 min 6 By Michael Kidd and the Wessa Environmental Governance Committee
CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES US, EU politicians call for removal of designated COP28 president, tougher rules on fossil fuel lobbyists 3 min 1 By Ethan van Diemen
BANKING ON A DANGEROUS FUTURE SA companies hold $17-billion in investments of coal, oil and gas companies — global report 6 min 3 By Julia Evans
CARBON SUPERHIGHWAY TO HELL SA’s public and private sectors ‘need to be on the same climate action page’ to stave off catastrophe - activists 4 min 1 By Onke Ngcuka
GLOBAL WARMING WARNING AR6 synthesis report: Warming above 1.5℃ is likely in the near term unless the world acts now, says the UN 5 min 0 By Eric Roston, Bloomberg
AR6 SYNTHESIS REPORT The need for action on the climate crisis is more urgent than previously assessed - IPCC 4 min 0 By Onke Ngcuka
