During the first few months of 2025, while the Trump administration was waging all-out war on the natural world, a movement was gaining momentum around a novel form of environmentalism. In New Zealand ...

By sticking to a narrow interpretation of export permit requirements, Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Dion George is missing a golden opportunity to end the rampant exploitation of ...

The Israeli government shared and then deleted a social media post offering condolences over the death of Pope Francis, without saying why, though an Israeli newspaper linked the decision to the late ...

Scenarios present an important reminder that South Africa’s future is not fixed. The aptly named ‘Journeys into our Future’ outlines the varied trajectories for the country.

Mmusi Maimane is Leader of Build One South Africa and Chairperson of Parliament’s Standing Committee on Appropriations. South Africa’s democratic journey has not been without achievement. Over three ...

A cannabis sin tax could conceivably remove or reduce the perceived need to raise VAT by 0.5 percentage points.

The reason the market tumbled was because US President Donald Trump did something very few heads of state do these days: he openly criticised the head of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, whom he ...

Pope Francis had expressed the desire to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a fifth-century church in Rome dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

While many rivers have become concrete conveyance canals filled with sewage and alien vegetation, the City of Cape Town has reversed a budgetary decision which was set to delay key river ...

Pope Francis walks in procession on the occasion of the Amazon synod at the Vatican, 7 October 2019. Pope Francis opened a three-week meeting on preserving the rainforest and ministering to its native ...

The country faces a public health crisis characterised by a poor supply of affordable medicines and too few pharmacies.

The destruction caused by climate change and conflicts has made it more urgent for us to preserve valuable seeds for our survival in an unpredictable world.