The public debate about climate change is an aberration. We do not have debates in newspapers about the validity of medical science, physics, aeronautics, geology or genetics. So what is different about climate science?

Now people are losing their lives over water. No water for a week left the community of Madibeng desperate, angry and protesting. Two men were shot dead, apparently by police.

Sandra Fisher heard the sound of running water in her Charleston, West Virginia, home on Monday for the first time in four days after a chemical leak fouled water supplies for hundreds of thousands of people.

The challenges with water as our life giving and most threatened resource, especially in Africa, continues to be one of our core focus areas of this year.

There is a new movement afoot, which is a ray of hope in our very bleak looking environmental future.

African media can and should do more to tell the story of climate change, observes a new UNESCO publication, titled Climate Change in Africa: A Guidebook for Journalists.

Russia's state-owned nuclear power company has signed an agreement to build eight new reactors in South Africa.

Green NGO The Landmark Foundation recently took some rare photos of an elusive elephant in the Knysna forest, while researching the leopard population status in the Garden Route.

Laingsburg was again under siege, hit by what some said was the worst flooding since the terrible flood of 33 years ago that wiped out half the buildings in town.

Heavy rains and strong winds have led to severe flooding in many parts of the UK, with coastal communities and those living close to rivers especially vulnerable.

Following the detention of the Russian-flagged trawler the “Oleg Naydenov” by the Senegalese national navy on charges of illegal fishing, Greenpeace reiterated its support to the government of Senegal for the enforcement of fisheries legislation.

Millions of fixers around the world have realized that repair is cheaper than buying new and it's better for the environment.

An organisation that brings together some 10,000 peasant and indigenous women from Chile is launching an agroecology institute for women campesinos, or small farmers, in South America.

The last straw for the people of Argentina’s central farming belt came when U.S. biotech giant Monsanto showed up to build a seed plant.

Scientist Julienne Stroeve has studied Arctic ice for decades, but a recent trip there surprised even her.

PV tariffs have “bottomed” and are unlikely to fall further, particularly in light of rising global demand for modules and ongoing industry consolidation, according to First Solar's Johan Cilliers.

2013 was a tough year for rhinos all over the world. With the escalating poaching crisis, all five rhino species are at extreme risk.

The Arctic 30 have finally returned home after they were granted amnesty by the Duma (Russian parliament) following a global campaign to free them.

2013 was a busy year for sustainability activities: More companies purchased more green energy, and saw advances in wind and solar penetration and efficiency, according to Rob Bernard, chief environmental strategist at Microsoft.rting continued to spread to more companies.

The Department of Water and Environmental Affairs (DWEA) has laid criminal charges against the owners of a tailing dam that overflowed and caused extensive pollution of the Selati and Olifants rivers in Limpopo.