South Africa has made "significant progress" in decreasing rhino poaching, the environmental affairs ministry said Wednesday.
Plants & Animals
Feb 14, 2019
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A special airlift for thousands of baby flamingos is under way in South Africa as drought has put their breeding ground in peril.
Ecology
Feb 1, 2019
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Tourism operators in Australia's vast outback say wild inaccuracies in Google Maps are making remote hot spots appear out of reach, deterring people from visiting the region.
Business
Jan 16, 2019
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The first few days of 2019 brought remarkable news from outer space. On January 1 NASA's New Horizons space probe made the most distant planetary flyby ever, and captured images of a small object 4 billion miles away from ...
Space Exploration
Jan 14, 2019
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Between 2015 and 2017 South Africa's South Western Cape region experienced three of its lowest rainfall years on record. This led to the progressive depletion of water supply reservoirs and by the summer of 2017/18 there ...
Environment
Dec 19, 2018
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The climate is changing, Earth's population is growing and more people are living in cities. That means urban areas—particularly those in arid or semiarid regions—need to update their water supply systems.
Environment
Dec 19, 2018
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An army of humans laid waste to an alien colony as South African video game maker Simon Spreckley enthusiastically controlled the action using his phone's touch screen.
Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 2, 2018
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South Africa faces the possible collapse of several inshore fisheries, particularly certain species of linefish, abalone and West Coast Rock Lobster. If nothing is done, not only will the ecology be poorer and change in many ...
Ecology
Nov 22, 2018
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When the police recover skeletonised, burnt or heavily decomposed bodies, they need forensic experts to make sense of what they've found. One important question in such cases is: when did the person die?
Other
Nov 14, 2018
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Smoldering debris, skeletons of cars with melted glass, a cat with a singed, soot-covered coat: ravaged by the most destructive fire to hit California, Paradise is now a ghost town.
Environment
Nov 11, 2018
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