Karpowership’s three proposed projects at three of South Africa’s ports failed to reach financial close at the required deadline, but government has not yet made a final call on what will happen to them.
Despite huge growth in the volume of electric and hybrid vehicles sold in South Africa, new energy vehicles only made up 1.45% of new vehicle sales in 2023.
In other markets, system operators increasingly see EVs as handy assets that can help them maintain a steady balance between supply and demand, says Nick Hedley.
Researchers are relying on drones, GPS tracking systems and now environmental DNA as part of conservation efforts, writes the Endangered Wildlife Trust.
Hope Sonic, a factory in Blackheath Cape Town, uses recycled plastic to make toy scooters and tea and kitchen sets that are supplied to Shoprite and Checkers supermarkets.
In the Vaal Triangle, nearly 50 kilometres from Johannesburg, 1.7 million people are living in a crossfire of some of the most dangerous pollution on Earth.
Five UCT graduates stand to win the Milken-Motsepe Prize in Green Energy, which will help them scale their solution which tackles energy shortages and lack of clean water.
A compliance unit within the United Nations Development Programme has recommended that it withdraw support for the controversial Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone, a draft report shows.
In a South African first, a project funded by one of the country’s biggest coal mining companies has begun repopulating a river system with fish after a catastrophic spill from a disused coal mine.
Cool-surface paint is being rolled out at military bases in Limpopo – and it’s one of the largest projects of its kind to be implemented in sub-Saharan Africa.
A wind farm set to be built right next to Makhanda in the Eastern Cape has raised the ire of game reserves and a civil society group, who are concerned about the impact that the huge turbines would have on biodiversity and the character of the region.
Not everyone can access food and women-headed homes are especially hard hit when it comes to hunger, and as weather patterns change because of global warming, this could worsen.
From 29 February, households will no longer be able to benefit from the solar PV tax incentive, but there is good news for automakers looking to expand electric vehicle production.
Scientists in South Korea have developed a new type of sustainable hybrid food – a “meaty” rice that they say could help solve food crises and climate change.