Freshwater is often one of the first victims of climate change according to the Global Alliances for Water and Climate (GAfWaC). The GAfWaC recently participated in the 8th World Water Forum with a presentation entitled Water and Adaptation to...
One of the world’s largest grassroots environmental networks has announced its intentions to take legal action against Shell for its failure to act on climate change. According to Donald Pols, director of Friends of the Earth Netherlands Shell is...
The Department of Environmental Affairs recently launched a state-of-the-art Weather Radar aimed at developing infrastructure and building capacity to improve rainfall estimation from multiple platforms that will be freely accessible to the...
With South Africa facing an increased frequency of extreme weather events experts are urging planners and decision-makers to move from reactive crisis management approaches to proactive climate change and disaster risk management. Speaking at a...