One of South Africa's most famous tourist attractions, the Kruger National Park, is celebrating 110 years of existence by holding several events over the next three weeks within its borders to highlight...

UNEP

World Environment Day, commemorated each year on 5 June, is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action.

Many predict that the future of job growth lies within a green economy. Expanding renewable energy industries, such as wind and solar, can offer high-paying jobs for skilled workers.

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Luyanda Makapela

Cape Town – South Africa is doing its best to meet the challenge of addressing climate change issues while improving energy supplies, says Minerals and Energy Minister Buyelwa Sonjica.

Mornay Louw/Nampa

The country's major water reservoirs continue to register significant inflow.

Nthambeleni Gabara

Midrand – A five-year programme is currently being devised to address the backlogs in water and sanitation services and to ensure the targets of the Millennium Development Goals will be met.

Cape Town - Finding a balance between the conflicting needs of rapid urbanisation and the need to protect biodiversity is a major challenge facing Cape Town, said Executive Mayor Helen Zille, Friday.

Edwin Tshivhidzo

Pretoria – The South African Weather Services (SAWS) has warned that heavy rains are expected in some parts of Gauteng and a cold front is expected to pass the south of the country over the weekend.

Shaun Benton

Cape Town – There is no water crisis in South Africa and claims to the contrary are not backed up by facts, the Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry has said in Parliament.

Michael Appel

Pretoria – As of 1 May 2008, a moratorium that was placed on the culling of elephants in 1995 will be lifted, announced Environmental Affairs Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Monday.

The Namibian - Werner Menges

A WEEK of wet weather has had a major impact on the levels of Namibia's main storage dams. Countrywide, the cumulative levels of the 17 dams under control of the Namibia Water Corporation have increased from 42,4 per cent of total capacity on Monday last week to 63,3 per cent this week Monday, according to NamWater's latest weekly dam bulletin.

Joseph Nhlanhla in Harare

A young woman stoops by the roadside in one of Bulawayo’s poor, high density townships where a huge water-filled crater extends into the road.

Vivian Warby

Cape Town - South Africa is not facing a water crisis nor a water contamination problem, says Water Affairs and Forestry Minister Lindiwe Hendricks.

The Namibian

THE Ministry of Environment and Tourism wants the area between the Kuiseb Delta (south of Walvis Bay), and the Swakop River mouth to be proclaimed a park in an attempt to stop the destruction of the...

The Namibian

Over 5 000 pupils and 270 teachers affected * 841 flood victims sheltered in Oshakati * 44 primary schools stopped classes in 37 other schools affected * 30 clinics inaccessible * 2 000 cattle dead * 1 800 goats dead ..... MORE than 40 primary schools have closed down in the flooded north-central regions because children are unable to wade through the water, while 4 000 head of livestock, weakened by the preceding drought, have been killed by the floods.According to the latest Government report, the floods cover 450 square kilometres in the North.

Disc

China, which is preparing to host the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, has taken on a task that would flummox even Hercules: controlling the weather.

IRIN

EPUPA FALLS, 18 January 2008 (IRIN) - Asking the local Himba people where on the Cunene River in northern Namibia they would choose to site a hydroelectric dam "is like asking me which of my three children do you want me to kill", a Himba elder told IRIN.

VTT

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has studied the profitability of using bush chips in electricity production in Namibia, where biomass from bushes has great energy production potential. Namibia suffers from the overgrowth of bush, which is disruptive to cattle raising, the country's primary source of livelihood. VTT also developed the production technology for bush chips.

Various

A recent European report on Animal Welfare Aspects of Seal Hunting has found unacceptable cruelty in the Namibian seal culling system.

BuaNews

Cape Town – The Cape Town High Court has dismissed an application by a group of abalone rights holders who wanted to stop the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism from issuing permits to abalone divers.