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REUTERS

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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iol scitech march 19 climate
REUTERS

Warming still on track to breach goals

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

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Tersia Greenstone, far left, and Two Oceans Aquarium staff release one of the ragged-tooth sharks off Gordon's Bay. Picture: Steve Benjamin/animalocean.co.za

Shark pair get a bite at freedom
April 12 2013 at 09:29

Cape Town’s Two Oceans Aquarium releases ragged-tooth specimens back into the sea.

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When hungry, pied babbler fledglings flutter from the nest to the ground, where predators roam, and start screeching to highlight their pligh. Picture: Derek Keats, www.flickr.com

When hunger calls, blackmail mom
April 12 2013 at 08:51

Fledglings of a southern African bird species threaten suicide to blackmail their parents into bringing them more food, say scientists.

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Cuba has an area of 109,884 square kilometers and more than 5,700 kilometers of coastline that includes everything from steep cliffs to sandy beaches to swamps.

Rapid rising sea levels puts Cuba at risk
April 12 2013 at 08:50

Cuba risks losing a vast stretch of beach front homes and pristine coastal habitat by 2050 because of rapidly rising sea levels.

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HATCHLING: A baby loggerhead sea turtle that washed up in Cape Town two weeks ago is fed at the Two Oceans Aquarium. Picture: JEFFREY ABRAHAMS

A turtle tale
April 11 2013 at 14:17

Baby loggerheads are washing up on Cape Town’s beaches as the winter weather forces them out of their normal migratory path.

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Video: Rhino killings continue
April 11 2013 at 13:58

The onslaught on rhinos in the Kruger National Park is intensifying weekly. At least one is attacked for it's horn, on a daily basis.

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As a precaution, the provincial agriculture department has placed the farm under quarantine and banned all movement of ostriches and ostrich products within a 3km radius.

Avian flu outbreak in Oudtshoorn
April 11 2013 at 09:56

Fresh avian flu outbreak a threat to long-suffering ostrich farmers.

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A Coqui Guajon or Rock Frog (Eleutherodactylus cooki) at a tropical forest in Patillas, Puerto Rico.

Alarm over vanishing frogs in Caribbean
April 11 2013 at 09:55

In parts of Puerto Rico there are places where researchers used to hear four species at once and they are now hearing one or two.

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'Air pollution is causing more deaths than HIV or malaria combined.'

Air pollution scourge underestimated - UN
April 10 2013 at 14:13

Air pollution kills far more people than Aids and malaria and a shift to cleaner energy could easily halve the toll by 2030, says the UN.

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Environmental affairs spokesman Moses Rannditsheni said that the underground water source formed part of the catchment of the Crocodile River. File photo: Picture: Kruger National Park

Petrol chemical contaminates water source
April 10 2013 at 09:32

The Green Scorpions are investigating a possible petrol leakage into an underground water source near Pretoria, Beeld reported.

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A group of penguins clusters on the beach of Marion, one of two islands that make up the Prince Edward Islands. Photo: Frederik-Willem Fourie

SA declares South Atlantic island a MPA
April 10 2013 at 09:31

The Prince Edward Islands in the South Atlantic have been declared a Marine Protected Area (MPA).

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