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Once extinct flower now flourishing in a South African national park

Table Mountain National Park, extending south along a peninsula from Table Mountain, is a global biodiversity hotspot. A ...
Bloomberg L.P.

South African Coal Plants Lift Death Rate by 6%, Study Shows

Air pollution in South Africa boosts the annual number of deaths by 6% in communities living near coal-fired power plants, a study by the South African Medical Research Council showed. The study, the ...
Yahoo

Scientists hope hungry weevils from Louisiana can tackle South Africa's invasive water plants

HARTBEESPOORT, South Africa (AP) — Dozens of tiny black weevils cling onto a fern plant as it is tossed onto a leafy green mat coating the surface of South Africa's Crocodile River. Those weevils aren ...
Mongabay

Bleak future for Karoo succulents as desert expands in South Africa

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Sometimes words fall hopelessly short. This might explain the silences between the two botanists as their vehicle crunches over a gravelly ...
Mongabay

Too many African plants fall into the IUCN’s ‘not evaluated’ trap (commentary)

Many African conservation decisions such as funding, policy, species prioritization and nursery propagation implicitly treat the IUCN Red List as a complete map of extinction risk. It is not. For ...
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Project Uses Plants to Clean the Jukskei River

EcoFilter system will collect data to tackle sewage and industrial contamination Untreated sewage leaking into the Jukskei River from poorly maintained city infrastructure, as well as industrial and ...