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AFP

Zoo says white rhino birth ‘sign of hope’

An Australian zoo said the birth of a southern white rhino was a “sign of hope” for the species given the escalation of poaching in Africa.

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Eskom gets green light for wind farm

The wind-farm would avoid nearly 4.7 million tons of carbon emissions over 20 years, said Eskom.

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Alien plant to blame for rhino ‘pink lips’

The surprise discovery of rhinos with bright pink lips and swollen eyes in northern KwaZulu-Natal has raised alarm bells.

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A male White Rhinoceros calf at Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Sydney. An Australian outback zoo announced the birth of a white rhino.

Zoo says white rhino birth ‘sign of hope’
May 22 2013 at 09:41

An Australian zoo said the birth of a southern white rhino was a “sign of hope” for the species given the escalation of poaching in Africa.

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The sun sets behind power-generating windmill turbines from a wind farm near the eastern German town of Dessau. The National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) has granted Eskom a licence for its Sere wind farm in the Western Cape, the power parastatal said.

Eskom gets green light for wind farm
May 21 2013 at 09:40

The wind-farm would avoid nearly 4.7 million tons of carbon emissions over 20 years, said Eskom.

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The distinctive pink lips and swollen eyes on this black rhino are thought to be from feeding on an invader plant. Picture: Dumisani Sibeko

Alien plant to blame for rhino ‘pink lips’
May 20 2013 at 14:18

The surprise discovery of rhinos with bright pink lips and swollen eyes in northern KwaZulu-Natal has raised alarm bells.

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'There have been many predictions and pronouncements in the past... that say South Africa will run out of (clean) water.'

Water shortage in SA could become reality
May 20 2013 at 09:52

There could be a shortage of clean water if South Africans do not work to conserve it, Water Affairs Minister Edna Molewa said.

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Warming is still on track, however, to breach a goal set by governments around the world of limiting the increase in temperatures to below 2 degrees Celsius.

Warming still on track to breach goals
May 20 2013 at 09:52

Extreme global warming is less likely in coming decades after a slowdown in the pace of temperature rises, say scientists.

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OCEAN ROYALTY: Majestic King Penguins swim in the waters off Marion Island. There can be as many as 100 000 breeding pairs of this species at one colony  Kildalkey Bay  on the island. Pictures: John Yeld

No man, or penguin, is an island
May 17 2013 at 14:22

The Prince Edward Islands Marine Protected Area is vital to conservation, writes John Yeld.

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One of SA's rarest frogs, the Pickersgills reed frog. Picture: Sam Phillips

Luxury suite for endangered frogs at SA zoo
May 17 2013 at 14:13

A special “frog room” has been equipped for the six-month project, says zoo's reptile expert Mike Adams.

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File photo: A baby baboon looks for food in the scorched ground at Franschhoek after the fire swept through the area. Picture: Jeffrey Abrahams

CapeNature orders baboon to be put down
May 17 2013 at 08:58

Brett Glasby of the Cape of Good Hope SPCA said the baboon, which had a nappy and a dummy, was “completely habituated” to people.

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File photo: Egyptian fishermen sail close to Aker Solutions' H-6e, the world's largest drilling rig. The company has won a contract to make the world's first tests for capturing emissions of carbon dioxide from cement factories.

Norwegian firm seeks to trap CO2
May 17 2013 at 08:57

Aker Solutions has won a contract to make the world's first tests for capturing emissions of carbon dioxide from cement factories.

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File photo: An Indonesian man demonstrates along with about 20 others against environmental groups, claiming that they are politicizing the issue of global warming.

Growing consensus on manmade warming
May 16 2013 at 09:12

Researchers reviewed scientific papers that expressed a position on whether humans were mostly to blame for recent global warming.

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