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Secrets below the soil: Earth detectives search deep for clues to the future
How healthy is the ‘great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River’?
Scientists study Cape lakes to predict climate change impacts
Myth-busting the Expropriation Act: A reality check
The United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP16), held in Cali, Colombia, in October 2024, tackled a host of different issues. It ended with a mixed result, as agreements were not met and challenges remain. (Photo: UN Biodiversity).COP16 report card: Global leaders make some biodiversity strides, but major challenges remain
A heard of elephants make their way through the bush (Photo: Supplied).Conservation ‘bootcamp’ helps students put the economy into wildlife
To mark World AIDS Day on the 1st of December, the GIFT team at UCT brought together two science rockstars to discuss HIV prevention and sexual health (Image: Syda Productions)Can we forget about HIV and move on to climate change?
The floods that ravaged coastal KwaZulu-Natal in April 2022 claimed more than 400 lives and left thousands homeless, especially among the poor. (Photo: Flickr)How savings groups can transform lives and help fortify communities against climate shocks
Archaeologists Dr Aron Mazel and Gunther Möller on their recent fieldtrip to the Jojosi Donga near Nquthu in KwaZulu-Natal, where they have uncovered unique evidence of stone age ‘workshops’ where hunter gatherers chipped out tools (Photo: Supplied).Glimpses of stone-age ‘workshops’: Archaeologists shed light on hunter-gatherers at work making tools
Johan de Beer, the SANParks K9 anti-poaching unit manager, shows the different types of snares found in the national park. Photo: Dianah ChiyangwaUnravelling the threads of snaring in Kruger park
Jonathan Oppenheimer presents the Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Research Grant to Shannon Conradie. (Photo: Supplied)Survival of the coolest: Oppenheimer research grant winner on overheating birds in a changing climate
Humpback whales are an important part of the West Indian Ocean ecosystem (Photo: Supplied).Pressing need for West Indian Ocean research