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From thriving to idle — a fishing family’s tale of change in Kalk Bay
TROUBLED WATERS

From thriving to idle — a fishing family’s tale of change in Kalk Bay

A conversation about fishing boats that can’t go to sea, reading the ocean and the changing nature of fishing.

By Don Pinnock
DRAINED AND OVERDRAWN

Beyond a crisis — we’re in a new era of global ‘water bankruptcy’, says UN report

By Tony Carnie
Beyond a crisis — we’re in a new era of global ‘water bankruptcy’, says UN report
WEATHER WOES REFLECTION

After Kruger Park storms, love and grief in the time of floods spur the spirit of solidarity

By Tiara Walters
After Kruger Park storms, love and grief in the time of floods spur the spirit of solidarity
TROUBLED WATERS

Inside SA’s fishing industry: Colin Attwood on counting the uncountable and the science of tracking fish

By Don Pinnock
Inside SA’s fishing industry: Colin Attwood on counting the uncountable and the science of tracking fish
WEATHER WOES

When the rivers rose, they stayed - how Hoedspruit’s volunteers became the ‘safari capital’s’ flood defence

By Tiara Walters
When the rivers rose, they stayed - how Hoedspruit’s volunteers became the ‘safari capital’s’ flood defence
Navigating sustainability — Doug Butterworth on SA’s fishing industry challenges
TROUBLED WATERS

Navigating sustainability — Doug Butterworth on SA’s fishing industry challenges

By Don Pinnock
KZN team finds ‘oldest evidence’ of arrow poison use by humans on 60,000-year-old arrowheads
ANCIENT KNOW-HOW

KZN team finds ‘oldest evidence’ of arrow poison use by humans on 60,000-year-old arrowheads

By Shaun Smillie
Families are seeing the financial impact of recycling
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Families are seeing the financial impact of recycling

By The Glass Recycling Company
How policy failures cripple Mossel Bay's fishing industry
TROUBLED WATERS

How policy failures cripple Mossel Bay's fishing industry

By Don Pinnock
Inside SA's fishing industry — it's more about survival, says Tim Reddell of Viking Fishing
TROUBLED WATERS

Inside SA's fishing industry — it's more about survival, says Tim Reddell of Viking Fishing

By Don Pinnock
Elephants or marula trees? A plant ecologist’s uneasy view from the Kruger Park
ECOLOGICAL PERIL OP-ED

Elephants or marula trees? A plant ecologist’s uneasy view from the Kruger Park

By Eugene Moll
From abundance to collapse — navigating the state of South Africa’s fishing industry
TROUBLED WATERS

From abundance to collapse — navigating the state of South Africa’s fishing industry

By Don Pinnock
WEATHER WOES

Hoedspruit, gateway to Kruger, drenched as rivers swell, airport closes, tourists airlifted

By Tiara Walters
Hoedspruit, gateway to Kruger, drenched as rivers swell, airport closes, tourists airlifted
RELAUNCH

Maverick Earth — a new era for environmental journalism

By Don Pinnock
Maverick Earth — a new era for environmental journalism
TROUBLED WATERS

Mapping South Africa's fishing industry — a conversation with Shaheen Moolla

By Don Pinnock
Mapping South Africa's fishing industry — a conversation with Shaheen Moolla
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Proven Impact: How Anthem is Delivering Clean Power and Driving Growth and Socio-Economic Impact

By Anthem
NOTES FROM A SMALL PLANET

Exploring our ecological consciousness through Carl Sagan's perspective on Earth

By Don Pinnock
MIXED BLESSING

Kruger National Park evacuates camps as severe weather warnings hit Limpopo and Mpumalanga

By Siyabonga Goni
FEEL THE HEAT

Climate crisis vs job security — how President’s fresh PCC picks aim to calm SA’s just transition jitters

By Naledi Sikhakhane
Coal demand hit record high in 2025, confounding its obituary writers
POWER BANK

Coal demand hit record high in 2025, confounding its obituary writers

Forecasting fossil fuel demand in this age of unprecedented geopolitical and economic uncertainty coats crystal balls with a layer of coal dust, and in the short term projections could be raised as financial taps to the sector reopen.

By Ed Stoddard
LOOKING AHEAD

Wetter skies to ease heat in 2026 but raise flood risk across SA’s interior provinces

By Lerato Mutsila
PEOPLE OF THE YEAR 2025

Jane Goodall’s legacy of courage and hope

By Tiara Walters
DIRTBAG OF THE YEAR

Environmental disaster: John Steenhuisen on how to march backwards

By Don Pinnock
ANALYSIS

Botswana’s huge elephant gamble could destroy its ‘conservation reputation’, say scientists

By Don Pinnock
Kaalfontein wetland under pressure as housing needs collide with environmental protection
URBAN PLIGHT

Kaalfontein wetland under pressure as housing needs collide with environmental protection

By Alet Pretorius
A Year in Pictures: Our angry planet
BURNING PLANET PHOTO ESSAY

A Year in Pictures: Our angry planet

By DM Photo Team
As 42 lion carcasses turned to ash, SA’s commitment to end captive breeding hangs in balance
BURNING SHAME

As 42 lion carcasses turned to ash, SA’s commitment to end captive breeding hangs in balance

By Don Pinnock
Strangefoot: the last elephant of Knysna — and the hope that refuses to die
LONELY TITAN

Strangefoot: the last elephant of Knysna — and the hope that refuses to die

By Don Pinnock
Tulbagh residents struggle with contaminated tap water as municipality maintains all is well
RAISING A STINK

Tulbagh residents struggle with contaminated tap water as municipality maintains all is well

By Lerato Mutsila

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