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Poachers take aim at rhinos in KZN

Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife said it had found 11 poached rhino carcasses in different parts of the province.

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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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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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One-year-old Kayla with another member of the Schoeman family.

Hello (big) kitty
May 15 2013 at 14:22

Garden Route game lodge parents raise two of the big cats alongside their children.

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A ranger charges a wild elephant in the video footage that has gone viral on social media networks. Frame grab: YouTube

Bush guide sorry for charging elephant
May 15 2013 at 12:10

A game ranger has asked for forgiveness after being video-taped charging an elephant.

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This undated photo provided by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization shows a plate with insects during an insect cuisine competition at an unknown location in Laos.

UN's plan to feed world: eat bugs
May 15 2013 at 09:31

The United Nations has issued official advice suggesting that Earth's inhabitants eat insects to help combat food-insecurity.

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This file photo shows rows of pressure ridges stack up, foreground, before tumbling over the ever-collapsing wide front of Jakobshavn Glacier and into the Ilulissat ice fjord, background, in Greenland.

Ice melt to be less severe than feared - study
May 15 2013 at 09:30

Some studies have projected sea level rise of up to 2 metres by 2100, a figure that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called a worst case.

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Removing sharks, like this one swimming off Muizenberg, from the ocean ecosystem will damage the system, says an expert.

‘Friendlier’ shark barrier designed by SA boffins
May 14 2013 at 14:09

The new concept could replace shark nets and save lives of marine creatures.

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A ranger charges a wild elephant in the video footage that has gone viral on social media networks. Frame grab: YouTube

Guide fired after charging elephant
May 14 2013 at 13:11

[VIDEO] A guide who was filmed charging on foot towards an elephant at the Kruger National Park has been dismissed.

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File photo: Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, was commenting on news that the volume of carbon dioxide in atmosphere had risen to 400 parts per million.

Dire new climate warning
May 14 2013 at 09:20

Earthlife said the poor would be hardest hit by, among others, disrupted rainfall patterns, flash floods, longer and more intense heat waves.

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US actor Leonardo DiCaprio gives a speech at the start of the 11th Hour auction at Christie's in New York.

DiCaprio environmental auction tops $33m
May 14 2013 at 09:19

Leonardo DiCaprio urged wealthy art collectors to bid at an environmental charity auction in New York as if the planet's fate “depends on us”.

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Anti-fracking activist Jonathan Deal of the Treasure the Karoo action group meets President Barack Obama during his current visit to the US where he received a major environmental award.

Activist wants Zuma to meet on fracking
May 13 2013 at 14:14

After meeting with Obama, Anti-fracking activist Jonathan Deal now sets sights on Zuma.

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