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Sustainable food experts want to revive fragile supply chains by using the games to ‘catalyse conservation’

Company insists project should go ahead despite new government saying it had been unlawfully approved

There are huge profits to be made in exploiting South Africa’s natural resources, but these come at a cost to society and the environment. Pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and depletion of natural wealth have a disproportionate impact on the country’s Black and low-income communities and workforce.

Extreme heat has already made 2024 a busy wildfire year. More acres had burned by mid-July than in all of 2023, and several communities had lost homes to wildfires.

At first glance, the 2024 remake movie Twisters contains many of the ingredients of the 1996 original, which starred Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton: a catastrophic and rare weather event, the urgency to use new technology to understand it, and central characters battling personality clashes.

Environment experts call for bold action as party attempts to revamp creaking infrastructure to hit net zero

New law authorises the killing of 481 bears in 2024, more than twice last year’s total of 220, amid outcry over attack.

You might think eating more sustainably requires drastic changes, such as shifting to a vegan diet. While a plant-based diet is undeniably good for the Earth, our new research shows modest changes to your eating habits can also have significant environmental benefits.

From ‘sea carrots’ to the rubbery luga, Rodolfo Guzmán is on a mission to transform seaweed’s unique salty flavours into irresistible bites

Carcass may be perfect specimen of spade-toothed whale and has been transported to whale-sized freezer just in time

In the latest in our series, we look at claims heat pumps will cause a risky surge in electricity demand