Climate change

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

by Rhett A. Butler Founder of Mongabay • Between rising deforestation in the Amazon, new financial and political commitments to reduce deforestation, and growing interest in “nature-based solutions” like conservation and reforestation, 2021 may prove to be a fateful year for the world’s tropical rainforests. • So what should we …

South Africa secures ‘watershed’ finance deal to reduce coal reliance by Onke Ngcuka, Daily Maverick November 3, 2021 The European Union, Germany, France, the UK, and the US have partnered to support South Africa’s climate action goals by helping finance the move from its heavy reliance on coal to cleaner …

by David King and Jane LichtensteinSeptember 5, 2021 This story was first published in The Conversation & Daily Maverick The challenge of surviving the next 50 years is now Stabilize the Planet and is seen as a planet-wide existential crisis; we need to work together urgently, just to secure a …