Polluted river water kills as many people as a nuclear explosion The first signs of global warming are now clealy visible. Today on the coast of Galicia. Tomorrow on your plate

By Sarah Thompson Achtung! U2 aren’t the eco-warriors we thought they were. Since the global super-band first formed, they have addressed global issues ranging from poverty to social justice to climate change. However, on their current “No Line On The Horizon” tour, they have been accused of hypocrisy by environmental groups as they transport their [...]

Yolandi Groenewald M&G South Africans should brace themselves for a severely water-stressed future, a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report on the world’s ecological footprint warned this week. The influential international report has been released every two years for the past decade. In 1996 it warned that the world was heading for ecological disaster. The latest [...]

The wise management of South Africa’s water resources is one of the most decisive factors that will affect the social and economic development of our country and the wellbeing of all our people, over the next 20 years. This challenge has brought together South Africa’s leading financial investment company and South Africa’s leading environmental NGO [...]

Let’s define “bear shaving” as the efforts we go to do deal with the symptoms of a problem instead of addressing the cause of the problem. A rare Japanese PSA (now long lost to the copyright gods) showed a girl shaving a bear so it could deal with global warming (here’s a lesser one)… Example: [...]

A “mind boggling” 3.3 billion litres of water is being lost every day from pipes across Britain, new figures reveal. The amount – equivalent to more than 1,300 Olympic-sized swimming pools – leaked out of the water network every day in 2007/08. The Liberal Democrats, who obtained the figures, want to impose tough fines on [...]

The Science of 350 Scientists say that 350 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere is the safe limit for humanity. Learn more about 350 – what it means, where it came from, and how to get there.Visit www.350.org and join their campaign to get back to 350ppm.