Sheree Bega
Environment Reporter at Mail & Guardian
Environment reporter @mailandguardian [email protected]
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23 hours ago |
mg.co.za | Sheree Bega
South Africans must brace for “a spell of extreme winter weather” starting this weekend, with snowfalls possible in all provinces, except Limpopo, according to the South African Weather Service. For the thousands of runners participating in the Comrades 2025 ultramarathon on Sunday, from Pietermaritzburg to Durban, the South African Weather Service expects predominantly mild to warm and windy conditions, with partly cloudy to cloudy skies.
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3 days ago |
mg.co.za | Sheree Bega
The reason the Boksburg Lake on Gauteng’s East Rand has turned a startling rusty red is toxic acid mine drainage (AMD) is seeping into the waterway from the Central mining Basin. This was confirmed by the state-owned Trans-Caledon Tunnel Authority (TCTA), which said on Monday that the decant associated with the Central Basin has affected the water quality in the Boksburg Lake. An AMD decant happens when the acidic mine water “daylights” on the surface from underground mining voids.
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4 days ago |
mg.co.za | Sheree Bega
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Dion George has withdrawn the approval of the “flawed” industry waste-tyre management plan, to ensure a comprehensive review. The withdrawal of approval for the plan, which was published in the Government Gazette on 20 March last year, would enable the department “to revisit the plan with a fine-tooth comb”, the environment department said on Monday.
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1 week ago |
mg.co.za | Sheree Bega
In March 2022, Rohan Barnard was on a farm in the Swartberg Mountains, between Calitzdorp and Oudtshoorn, flipping over rocks searching for ants, reptiles and other critters, when he stumbled upon the find of a lifetime. In an ancient forest patch, buried deep in the moist sand below a pile of leaf litter at the edge of a small river, the grade nine student found a slate black velvet worm.
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1 week ago |
mg.co.za | Sheree Bega
Long before there were dinosaurs, there were dragonflies. That’s one of the things about the ephemeral insects, with their long, slender bodies and gossamer-thin wings, that fascinates entomologist Charl Deacon. Dragonflies, known for their striking aerial acrobatics and near 360-degree vision, are one of the oldest groups of winged insects on Earth.
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