The most keenly anticipated and heavily scrutinised climate change negotiations in history are taking place over the next two weeks in Copenhagen.
Delegates are under enormous pressure to reach fair, ambitious and binding targets to reduce greenhouse emissions and bring the carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million – the level science [...]
A South African documentary critical of the nuclear industry received an unexpected screening on SABC2 on Sunday night.
Uranium Road, based on the book by anti-nuclear researcher Dr David Fig, reveals the secrets, the risks and huge amounts of money wasted on South Africa’s nuclear power programme.
The film was first screened on [...]
On Saturday, 24 October, millions of ordinary people in almost every country demonstrated their support for drastic action on climate change. To see images from events all over the world, go to 350.or
National Marine Month
www.environment.gov.za
Wednesday 14th – Thursday 16th
Diversitas Open Science Conference on Biodiversity
600 international experts meet to discuss ways of slowing species loss and conserving the natural systems on which we all depend.
Cape Town International Convention Centre
www.diversitas-osc.org
Tuesday 13th
SanWild High Court application to stop open cast mining inside its wildlife sanctuary
www.sanwild.org
Saturday 24th
International Day of Climate [...]
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