by Elsabé Brits, Daily MaverickSeptember 5, 2021 Read Part One here. It seems that as part of the “Baboons Management Plan” there is a checklist of “offences”, such as entering homes, cars and raiding rubbish bins. Too many offences on a sheet, and it is the end of the road for the baboon. When the…
ChatGPT is a data privacy nightmare. If you’ve ever posted online, you ought to be concerned Shutterstock Uri Gal, University of Sydney ChatGPT has taken the world by storm. Within two months of its release it reached 100 million active users, making it the fastest-growing consumer application ever launched. Users are attracted to the tool’s advanced…
by Tony Carnie, Daily MaverickJune 15, 2022 Sewage Causes Beach Closures for Top Tourist Destination More than two months after all Durban’s beaches were closed because of the devastating April floods, several sewage treatment works are still kaput – and it could take several months to repair them. Large sections of sewerage reticulation pipelines are…
by Tiara Walters, Daily MaverickMay 17, 2022 Supergiant oilfields are simmering below the Southern Ocean, the warming waters at the bottom of the Earth that wrap around the melting, icy Antarctic, a litany of Kremlin sources suggest. Despite the 1998 Antarctic mining ban — ratified by Russia and 28 other states — some of the…
This new advance enables a dramatic increase in energy-producing capacity for every square meter installed. by Nick Szymanowski MIT Scientists Discover New Way to Clean PV Panels Resources of every kind are in high demand. At the same time, numerous ecological overshoot issues cause climate chaos, in turn creating an economic tightening of flow. This…
By Nick Szymanowski As the global economy rebounded from the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021, increased use of coal caused carbon emissions to soar to the highest levels in history. An International Energy Agency (IEA) report states that emissions rose by 6% to an earth-shattering 36.3 billion tonnes. IEA Warning Cannot Be Ignored The International Energy…
by PA Quinton, MyPR March 15, 2022 Checkers Sitari and the entire Sitari Village Mall located close to Somerset West, Cape Town have become South Africa’s first premium supermarket and shopping centre to run entirely off renewable energy from wind and solar sources. This is part of Checkers’ ongoing commitment to environmental sustainability and comes…
Image Credit: Electrek.co by Nick Szymanowski How Will Putin’s War with Ukraine Impact Fossil Fuel? The (Gas)-FREE World is not Russian! But can the European Union get off their Putin supply before winter? If there is anything that the Ukraine conflict has highlighted in its first week, it’s that Putin is the world’s leading fossil…
Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py-nk6e-fsi Transcript of the War in Ukraine YouTube report We continue to see support for Ukraine from some countries with recent traditions of staying out of international conflicts. In a rare move, Japan is sending bullet-proof vests and other military supplies to Ukraine. The country is not sending weapons because of a self-imposed ban, but…
Monkey Business (Part 3) Cape Peninsula’s dated baboon management plan is a failure, say critics by Elsabé Brits September 6, 2021 The way the baboons in the Cape Peninsula are managed is hailed as a great success, but not everyone agrees. “I think because the programme is ‘sold’ as a science-based one, there should be…
