Tendele’s mine pollutes their air and water, residents claim
An environmental and health hazard is brewing in violence-stricken Ophondweni and Somkhele in KwaZulu-Natal as…
Air Pollution
Air pollution link in 15% of global Covid-19 deaths
About 15% of global deaths from Covid-19 could be attributed to long-term exposure to ambient…
Dirty air kills 476 000 newborns
Air pollution contributed to the deaths of almost half a million babies in 2019, during…
Load-shedding’s silver lining: Lower levels of sulphur dioxide air pollution
Rolling blackouts last year helped South Africa’s sulphur dioxide (SO₂) emissions to drop by about…
State ‘dragging its feet’ in watershed Mpumalanga pollution case
The government is “inexplicably dragging its feet” in its response to the landmark Deadly Air…
UN special rapporteur on the environment joins local air pollution case
Senior government ministers have gone to great lengths in recent months defending South Africa’s globally…