The 28 skull fragments and six teeth were found in a very narrow passage 12m beyond the Dinaledi chamber, the site where the first H. naledi remains were found ...

US deputy climate envoy Jonathan Pershing says SA needs grant funding and concessional loans to assist with its transition to clean energy

Experts differ on the use of hydrogen to replace  fossil-fuel engines

Groups want tougher action to improve air quality

High-level panel found the practice damages the tourism industry and is not good for conservation

Sars’s customs unit has made its fourth rhino horn bust since July 2020

There are an estimated 12,000 captive lions in the country, while fewer than 10,000 wild lions roam the continent

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna  developed the CRISPR/Cas9 tool to edit the DNA of animals, plants and micro-organisms with precision

Arctic sea ice reached its second-lowest extent for September, continuing a fast decline since satellites started monitoring the ice in 1979

Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez win the 2020 Nobel  for discoveries ‘about the most exotic phenomena in the universe, the black hole’

Two Americans and a Briton share the award for decades-old work on a pathogen that afflicts 78-million people a year