APPEAL TO ANGLERS Hooks, lines and sinkers … the painful consequences of abandoned fishing gear 4 min 1 By Tony Carnie
POWER DYNAMIC eThekwini’s energy deal is not the green win it seems to be 5 min 7 By Lindsey Schutters
ZAMA ZAMAS Spike in illegal gold mining alongside Blyde River threatens ecosystems, including Kruger 7 min 6 By Ed Stoddard and Julia Evans
BIOCRIME How illegal harvesting of vulnerable plants and animals strips the Cape’s ecology 7 min 2 By Julia Evans
VIDEO Watch – Plant poaching in South Africa: The million rand Miracle Bush Lily heist 1 min 0 By Kristin Engel
NATIONAL ENERGY MIX Activists raise concerns as nuclear site close to Cape Town given go-ahead 4 min 5 By Ethan van Diemen
TOXIC SPILL PROBE UPL lawyers fight NPA prosecution decision on Durban chemical blaze 6 min 3 By Tony Carnie
POLLUTED WATERS Hout Bay mussels contaminated with hidden toxins and sewage – study 6 min 3 By Kristin Engel
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION Cautious optimism as translocated SA cheetahs fill a new Mozambican ecological niche 4 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
BIODIVERSITY GOVERNANCE OP-ED SA’s trophy hunting quotas spark legal battles and civil society backlash 5 min 0 By Adam Cruise
POLLUTED WATERWAYS Neglect turns Cape Town’s Diep River Canal into a stinking sewage trap 5 min 1 By Kristin Engel
TOXIC THREAT OP-ED New WWF report unveils alarming links between plastics and human health 4 min 0 By Zaynab Sadan
WEATHER WATCH Cold, wet and windy conditions to hit Western and Northern Cape from Monday 4 min 0 By Julia Evans
ANIMAL TRADING Cites is obsolete and needs a complete rebuild, say wildlife researchers 5 min 0 By Don Pinnock
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK Pinpointing Pollution (Part 3): Mapping SA’s most at-risk communities 3 min 0 By Lieke Heuvelmans
COST OF COAL PHOTO ESSAY Pinpointing Pollution (Part 2): Living and dying in Thubelihle 12 min 1 By Ethan van Diemen
COST OF COAL Pinpointing Pollution (Part 1) — The Mpumalanga town where South Africans suffer most 10 min 0 By Ethan van Diemen
DEAD IN THE WATER High court drives ‘final nail’ into Turkish Karpowership coffin 3 min 7 By Tony Carnie
SPRAY AND PRAY Call for urgent SA pesticide action plan to protect farm workers — and consumers 5 min 2 By Naledi Sikhakhane
NATIONALLY DETERMINED CONTRIBUTIONS It’s time to comment on South Africa’s latest climate commitments 5 min 2 By Kristin Engel
