Q&A: UK’s Africa minister Vicky Ford says Britain is hoping for Eskom deal

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

SA’s new space infrastructure hub will boost local space industry capabilities with Sansa having Africa’s only satellite engineering proficiency

SPONSORED | Is cannabis the jackpot SA’s been waiting for?

The Business Day Cannabis Economy, in partnership with Afriplex, is offering a series of webinars starting August 27 2020

The government should consider renewable energy in its post-pandemic stimulus package, says the group

New framework will help with the identification of new industrial opportunities in the green economy