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Stephen Lamb explains the design inspiration for the Cape Town Climate Smart Campaign Stand that won the award for the “Best Green Design exhibit” and the “Best Overall Stand”, both awarded for excellence in promoting principles of sustainability.

A group of South Peninsula High School pupils are spearheading environmental awareness at their school, from starting an indigenous fynbos garden to building their own wind turbine.

Alanna Rebelo, a Stellenbosch University (SU) Master's student, is one of three South African researchers who have been awarded the renowned "Green Talents" sustainability prize in Berlin.

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The seventh black rhino population established by the WWF Black Rhino Range Expansion Project, was recently released after an epic 1500 kilometre trip across the country.

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The early hours of Sunday 11 December finally saw 194 countries, including the US and China, agree to an “outcome with legal force” to reduce carbon emissions by 2015, to take effect in 2020.

Summer holidays are around the corner and with the summer sun heating up and early summer winds blowing a gale –

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The City of Cape Town was one of the main signatories of the Durban Climate Change Adaptation Charter for Local Government signed on Sunday 4 December 2011.

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Come discover the wonders of the marine life off our shores.

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As I write this, civil society protestors are are engaging in peaceful protests in the Durban ICC at COP17.

The most striking thing about Rocklands Primary School in Mitchells Plain is the huge variety of trees. Neo Maditla, staff reporter of the Cape Argus explains why.