The residents of Karoo in South Africa were shocked to learn that more than 700,000 hectares of Karoo farmlands had been earmarked for uranium mining by the Australian company Peninsula Energy – as reported by The Ecologist in April 2016. This development would have wiped out years of painstaking recovery of the semi-arid plains and threaten […]

South African project developer, G7 Renewable Energies has announced that the Roggeveld Wind Farm will start construction after having recently reached financial close. The developer initiated development of the Roggeveld Wind Farm in 2009. Dr Kilian Hagemann, co-founder and managing director emphasised that “with Roggeveld, we have proven G7’s abilities to develop the most competitive […]

Every day masses of humanity hurtle across great distances in planes and trains, but I cherish the opportunity to slow down, to delight my imagination with new sights and sounds. I have traveled between Johannesburg and Cape Town using every method of transportation, but the chance to watch life is why I almost always take […]

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AfriForum and the Treasure Karoo Action Group (TKAG) view Shell South Africa’s indication of its intention to withdraw from shale gas exploration in the Karoo as a major victory for those who care about the environment, TKAG said in a statement on Monday. The Herald last week reported that Shell was pulling back from its […]

Rain is expected in the Western Cape; and scattered showers along the coastline and West Coast, with extremely high fire conditions over the Central Karoo on Wednesday. Alerts Extremely high fire conditions are expected over the Central Karoo of the Western Cape. Rain An 80% chance of rain is forecast for the extreme southwestern tip […]

‘From a grand sandstone mansion rescued from dilapidation in the scrubby Free State veld to a romantic arts and crafts-style double-storey that presides over a sizeable piece of prime real estate in the high Berea suburb of Durban, Remarkable Heritage Houses of South Africa provide a privileged glimpse inside 20 of the country’s most distinguished, […]

Trevor Hardaker/www.hardaker.co.za By all accounts, the riverine rabbit of South Africa’s Karoo Desert is not doing well. The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the species as critically endangered and notes that there are just 250 breeding pairs left. This long-eared rabbit, also known as the bushman hare, lives in the bands of vegetation that […]

Image Credits: Pixabay The rain-thirst Western Cape is set to have a bit of relief on Thursday evening, according to weather reports. Rain has been a rare occurrence in the drought-stricken province, which has resulted in a water crisis which has seen restrictions being put in place to delay the dreaded “Day Zero“. For the third […]

Shell is pulling back from its controversial Karoo fracking venture. Responding yesterday to questions about the company pulling the plug on its plan to frack blocs across the eastern, western and northern Cape Karoo, Shell spokeswoman Dineo Pooe said the multinational was rescaling its Karoo team. “With the low oil price environment, Shell has decided […]

When stars reach the end of their main sequence, they undergo a gravitational collapse, ejecting their outermost layers in a supernova explosion. What remains afterward is a dense, spinning core primarily made up of neutrons (aka. a neutron star), of which only 3000 are known to exist in the Milky Way Galaxy. An even rarer […]

Cameco (NYSE: CCJ) and Peninsula Energy (OTCMKTS:PENMF) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, dividends and earnings. Analyst Recommendations This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Cameco and Peninsula Energy, as […]

As part of the XTractor Around the World expedition, four McCormick tractors using BKT tyres will travel 6 000km across South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland in 48 days.Photo: McCormick/BKT The first stage of the expedition was undertaken across Australia last year. According to a statement by McCormick, the XTractor expedition is a “docu-reality programme”, in […]

It’s been over 90 years since Fred Barnard of Printers Ink said, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Barnard would probably be blown away by the power of video and its ability to deliver a message. Several research projects report that video has a 135 per cent greater reach than a static image. And, […]

News releases  |  Research  |  Science March 28, 2018 Michelle Ma UW News In this artist rendering, Teleocrater, an early dinosaur relative, is shown feeding on Cynognathus, while hippo-like dicynodonts look on. All of these animals lived in the mid-Triassic of Tanzania, about 240 million years ago.Mark Witton/Natural History Museum, London. After a great mass […]

Welcome to Triassic Park! Researchers spent a decade working at remote African sites to fill in serious gaps in our understanding of life at the Dawn of the Dinosaur Age. The scene, including dino-relative Teleocrater in foreground, illustrates what mid-Triassic Tanzania might have looked like 240 million years ago. (Credit Mark Witton/Natural History Museum, London) […]

Welcome to Triassic Park! Researchers spent a decade working at remote African sites to fill in serious gaps in our understanding of life at the Dawn of the Dinosaur Age. The scene, including dino-relative Teleocrater in foreground, illustrates what mid-Triassic Tanzania might have looked like 240 million years ago. (Credit Mark Witton/Natural History Museum, London) […]

Welcome to Triassic Park! Researchers spent a decade working at remote African sites to fill in serious gaps in our understanding of life at the Dawn of the Dinosaur Age. The scene, including dino-relative Teleocrater in foreground, illustrates what mid-Triassic Tanzania might have looked like 240 million years ago. (Credit Mark Witton/Natural History Museum, London) […]

A decade-long project set out to understand what life was like during the Triassic period all around the world. The Triassic period, 252 to 199 million years ago, followed a great mass extinction and saw the arrival of the earliest mammals and reptiles. These terrestrial species lived on Pangea, an early supercontinent where all the […]

News releases  |  Research  |  Science March 28, 2018 Michelle Ma UW News In this artist rendering, Teleocrater, an early dinosaur relative, is shown feeding on Cynognathus, while hippo-like dicynodonts look on. All of these animals lived in the mid-Triassic of Tanzania, about 240 million years ago.Mark Witton/Natural History Museum, London. After a great mass […]