After banking stress tests, the central bank prepares to assess insurers amid rising costs from extreme weather events.

Climate change is reshaping the global water cycle, disrupting rainfall patterns and putting growing pressure on cities and ...

The Managing Director of the South African Environmental Observation Network (NRF-SAEON), Dr Mary-Jane Bopape and her research collaborators have journal-published a groundbreaking research paper that ...

South Africa’s second city is at a crossroads: those flocking to live there are powering the economy, but also driving up ...

Two years ago this month (June 2023) the average global temperature jumped by a third of a degree Celsius in a single month.

When land loses water, it starts to lift up, like a foam ball expanding back to shape after being squeezed. Normally, ...

Some of the greatest minds from across the country and around the world gathered in early April for the Edison Awards in ...

The community of Lamontville, south of Durban, has experienced flooding at least once a year since 2021, damaging houses and washing away roads. When heavy rains come, sewage bubbles up from the ...

South African Gysbert Verwey, a repeat visitor to Namibia, has provided an open letter to the African Tourism Board, ...

“We’re bringing in the engineers who understand stormwater and flooding so that the two can talk to each other. So we can come up with some solutions.” The Tampa Bay Regional Planning ...

Affluent estates in Lagos command luxury prices comparable to those in Dubai, London, or Johannesburg, yet fall far short of delivering the essential services found in some of those cities. Despite ...

By Clare Nuttall in Glasgow Torrential rains in the Congolese capital Kinshasa in early April brought devastating floods that ...