Breaking: For the first time in an Arctic winter, commercial vessels traverse Far North from opposite sides

BOOK REVIEW

Big Pharma, Dirty Lies, Busy Bees and Eco-Activists may be one of the most important SA books published in 2020

Don Pinnock

10 JAN

2020 in Review

Polluter of the Year: The South African government

Kevin Bloom • 04 JAN

The Puma, Cougar and Mountain Lion are all the same animal.

OPINIONISTA

Unpacking the Just Transition (Part Two): Between recovery and reconstruction

Saliem Fakir • 13 JAN

OPINIONISTA

Unpacking the Just Transition (Part One): The conceptual terrain

Saliem Fakir

11 JAN

DM168 Op-Ed

Our Burning Planet: Kids, about your inheritance…

Don Pinnock

10 JAN

OPINIONISTA

A just energy transition must be developmental, pro-poor and not deepen inequality

Tracy Ledger

13 JAN

NATURAL WORLD

‘Africa’s Wild Dogs’: Nomads of the Bushveld

Jocelin Kagan

05 JAN

(Not) the Interview of the Year

Kataza: ‘Why are you in my home, pesky human?’

Ben Trovato

31 DEC

DM168 Year in Review

Our Burning Planet Hero of the Year: Fikile Ntshangase

Tiara Walters

03 JAN

BOOK REVIEW

The story of a forgotten forest fire stirs sparks of insight and provides hope in the Age of Covid

17 DEC

Pyrocene Cape

SANParks traces Oudekraal blaze to homeless camper

Tiara Walters • 19 DEC

"It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter." ~ Marlene Dietrich

OPINIONISTA

South Africa must place climate crisis literacy at the centre of its education system

Bongani Mahlangu and Chumasande Lalendle • 07 JAN

OUR BURNING PLANET

Blue Flag award no guarantee the water is clean

Steve Kretzmann

21 DEC

OUR BURNING PLANET INVESTIGATION

Pyrocene Cape: Inside the furnace of Table Mountain’s fire starters

Tiara Walters

13 DEC

20 mins

OPINIONISTA

Ten compelling reasons to stay away from nuclear power

Chris Butters

07 JAN

BOOK REVIEW

A lyrical look at hunter-gatherers and a fading way of life

21 DEC

Our Burning Planet

Oom Rudi and the bulldozers: Huge blow to restoration as SA’s largest estuarine lake mouth is smashed open

07 JAN

OPINIONISTA

Gwede Mantashe’s performance agreement includes a nuclear vanity project that we cannot afford

Kevin Mileham

20 DEC

LOCKDOWN TOURISM

South African parks and reserves face a renewed struggle for survival

Sandisiwe Shoba

06 JAN

OUR BURNING PLANET 168

Are we starving great whites to death?

Don Pinnock • 19 DEC

Ireland's population has still not recovered from the Great Famine.

MAVERICK CITIZEN

Not just another brick in the wall – ecobricks remain vital to conservation efforts

Karin Schimke • 17 DEC

OP-ED

Amazon in Africa: A walk through history in the Two Rivers Urban Park

Steven Robins

16 DEC

MAVERICK CITIZEN

Community-owned renewable energy is a Climate Justice Charter imperative

Sunny Morgan

17 DEC

OPINIONISTA

We must stop putting a commercial value on wildlife and embrace ecophenomenology

Adam Cruise

16 DEC

OP-ED

Paradise is closing down: The ghastly spectre of oil drilling and fracking in fragile Okavango Delta

Andreas Wilson-Spath

15 DEC

OP-ED

Veld circles are creating custodians of Cape Town’s biodiversity

Dian Spear

15 DEC

Book Review 168

To the Edges of the Earth: A Journey into Wild Land – a heartfelt cry over environmental degradation

John Yeld

15 DEC

9 mins

Daily Maverick 168

Noah’s seed bunker: Protecting billions of wild plants

12 DEC

OPINIONISTA

Time for the big development finance institutions to get their environmental house in order

Leanne Govindsamy • 15 DEC

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold it would be a merrier world." ~ JRR Tolkien

SPOTLIGHT

New climate report paints grim picture for health in South Africa

Kathryn Cleary for Spotlight • 08 DEC

GROUNDUP

Diamond divers warn damage to seabed from West Coast mining dams ‘will never be repaired’

John Yeld

09 DEC

OPINIONISTA

Unregulated international trade in reptiles threatens South Africa’s vulnerable species

Charan Saunders

10 DEC

Sean Kelly for Roving Reporters

OCEAN WATCH

Hooked on safety: Fewer nets, but more baited hooks – the price of keeping KZN’s bathers safe from sharks

TOXIC ENVIRONMENT

Engen is ‘still killing us’, says Durban community body after explosion at refinery

Desiree Erasmus

07 DEC

Maverick Citizen Op-Ed

Rural poor suffer most under SA’s water crisis – labour must speak out

Hameda Deedat

OP-ED

African penguins are heading towards extinction – here’s how we can save them

Lewis Pugh

01 DEC

OUR BURNING PLANET OP-ED

Five years after Paris Climate Agreement, why is SA’s response to climate crisis so lethargic?

James Reeler

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Threat of fracking looms large over Okavango Delta and other conservation areas

Geoff Davies • 06 DEC

2 mins

Billboards are banned in Hawaii (and three other US states).

OP-ED

Fast-changing electricity landscape calls for robust regulatory reform

Grové Steyn and Celeste Renaud • 06 DEC

DM168 Environment

Three years on, the shot-hole borer continues to eat away at SA’s trees

05 DEC

OPINIONISTA

Tesla inspires another new industry – and it’s one South Africa could benefit from

Toby Shapshak

BUSINESS MAVERICK OP-ED

UK’s bold EV move on climate change

Alexander Parker

Gabriel Manyangadze and Francesca de Gasparis

Climate Justice Charter

A faith perspective on taking the sanctity of nature seriously

01 DEC

OPINIONISTA

Mine, not yours: When will mining companies realise ancestral land cannot be valued in rands and cents?

Dineo Skosana

02 DEC

WEBINAR

Predator Politics: New book reveals Deputy President David Mabuza’s alleged role in Mpumalanga land scam

Greg Nicolson

04 DEC

Aimée-Noël Mbiyozo for ISS TODAY

ISS TODAY

African cities must prepare for climate migration amid environmental threats

7 hours ago

OUR BURNING PLANET

World prays that ‘Ambition Summit’ will put Paris climate agreement back on track

Peter Fabricius • 09 DEC

Selfie sticks are banned in all Disney Theme parks.

Our Burning Planet

Eskom served with summons for criminal prosecution on charges of air pollution

Chris Yelland • 29 NOV

Muhammed Patel and Gaylor Montmasson-Clair

MAVERICK CITIZEN OP-ED

Achieving a just and green transition in South Africa: Taking stock before moving forward

29 NOV

OP-ED

The sky’s the limit: Air rights can unlock new opportunities for the economy and the landless

Leslie Downie

25 NOV

PHOTO ESSAY

Deep South Vibes: Kataza’s ‘homecoming’ – Can we all get along?

Alan Van Gysen

24 NOV

< 1 min

CLIMATE CRISIS

South Africa has a viable, sustainable alternative in its plan for a ‘Just Transition’

Kaamil Alli

22 NOV

Environment 168

Healing South Africa’s largest lake paradise

21 NOV

Killing the Holy Ghost

How the Musina-Makhado SEZ will parch the people of Zimbabwe

Kevin Bloom

19 NOV

13 mins

OUR BURNING PLANET

Day Zero or Day Sulphur – new Cape Town study re-opens controversy on human manipulation of the world’s climate

18 NOV

OP-ED

Killer cats: What feline lovers don’t want to hear

Dian Spear • 17 NOV

The Hindenburg had a smoking room.

PLASTIC MENACE

At last – Woolworths makes a move to rid South Africa of plastic shopping bags

Tiara Walters • 16 NOV

Michael Addaney, Chantelle Gloria Moyo and Thabang Ramakhula

Politically Aweh (Video)

Let’s get energetic: Renewable energy is just what SA needs right now

Politically Aweh

16 NOV

< 1 min

OP-ED

The African Union needs to flex its muscles on environmental disasters

15 NOV

CLIMATE ROAD MAP

Carbon footprint: Sasol’s long journey to clean up its climate act

11 NOV

2 mins

BUSINESS MAVERICK

Peak oil demand behind us as pandemic accelerates energy transition, says PwC

11 NOV

Maverick Citizen: Climate Justice

A golden opportunity for SA’s public finance institutions to stop funding fossil fuel projects

Ahmed Mokgopo

10 NOV

Jane Cherry and Vishwas Satgar

Climate Justice Op-ed

The world needs a climate justice charter and a deep, just transition to sustain life on our burning planet

08 NOV

Op-Ed

Overberg farmers open hearts to conservation of renosterveld

Dian Spear

06 NOV

OUR BURNING PLANET

Lucrative prize schemes – the best way to tackle the Earth’s most pressing problems?

Tony Carnie • 06 NOV

There are fewer bacteria in urine than there are in tap water.

New Frame

Pollution adds to Covid-19 deaths, say scientists

Tony Carnie for New Frame • 05 NOV

OUR BURNING PLANET

Ancient dassie dung holds secrets on tackling climate crisis

Shaun Smillie

04 NOV

TABLE MOUNTAIN BLAZE

Cape Town’s Halloween fire ignited by ‘vagrants’ — SANParks

Tiara Walters

02 NOV

OP-ED

We honour the memory of Fikile Ntshangase, Sikhosiphi ‘Bazooka’ Rhadebe and other fearless environmental warriors

Morné du Plessis

01 NOV

OP-ED

A water and sanitation revolution is coming, and Africa and Latin America can lead the way

Dhesigen Naidoo

29 OCT

PLASTEMIC

NGOs call on Cape Town beachgoers to help clean up debris from massive nurdle spill

Karabo Mafolo

27 OCT

OP-ED

CITES has degenerated into a battleground in the war between Western NGOs and African conservationists

Max Abensperg-Traun

27 OCT

OP-ED

Covid-19 has taught us we cannot separate social from environmental justice

Tatjana von Bormann

26 OCT

Op-Ed

Ramaphosa’s plan: Economic recovery for the few, ecological devastation for many

Alex Lenferna • 25 OCT

By law Pluto remains a planet in New Mexico.

OP-ED

Cape St Francis: How to steal a beach

Craig Jarvis • 25 OCT

BUSINESS MAVERICK 168 ANALYSIS

Renewable energy: REIPing the whirlwind

Tim Cohen

25 OCT

Daily Maverick 168

It’s time to rethink our connection to the planet

Don Pinnock

24 OCT

9 mins

BOOK EXTRACT

Pangolins: Scales of Injustice by Richard Peirce

The Reading List

21 OCT

12 mins

OP-ED

Science may not be enough to prevent the desert locust plague in East Africa

Monique Bennett

19 OCT