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The activities of illegal miners are a threat to the sustainability of the crater.
From detecting pollutants to assessing health risks, the US EPA’s Office of Research and Development has long ensured that environmental decisions are grounded in credible, cutting-edge science.
Pesticides have polluted waterways worldwide. Understanding the subtle effects of these chemicals on fish behaviour can help guide better policy and regulation.
There’s a need for more surveys of macroinvertebrates in African countries.
Cancer rates are rising among younger people aged under 50. Here’s what we know about the causes – and what the evidence says about the role of plastics.
Current science communications in Cape Town are not serving the public well.
Researchers are tracking multi-drug resistant bacteria in South Africa’s water to see how it endangers food safety when it’s used to irrigate crops.
Having to protect and conserve drinking water and its sources is as relevant today as it always has been.
The White House proposal represents a dramatic retreat from the national goals of clean air and clean water enacted in federal laws over the past 55 years.
Real world measurements of how much extra heat the Earth is trapping are well beyond most climate models. That’s a real problem.
Many small towns in Ghana lack the infrastructure and planning capacity to cope with their growth.
The algal bloom in SA is a warning to coastal communities, as well as tourism, seafood and aquaculture industries. It’s a sign of what’s to come as the oceans warm.
The first Trump administration also used words like ‘transparency,’ ‘reproducibility’ and ‘uncertainty’ − to try to block regulators from using important health studies when writing pollution rules.
South Africa’s rural wastewater treatment plants release polluted water if they aren’t maintained properly. Microalgae that purify the water could be a solution.
The Starship program has already experienced more failures than many other space missions in the past. Will it ever see success – and if so when?
50 million litres of toxic mine waste recently flooded into Zambia’s Kafue River after the dam storing the mine waste collapsed. Mine specialists set out the issues.
Insects are often under pressure from several threats at once, from pesticides to habitat loss to pollution.
Exciting new devices and materials powered by tiny nanomaterials are being developed to clean up South Africa’s polluted water sources.
Reclaiming and regenerating environments affected by mining tailings requires greater financing and innovation.
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Honorary Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
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Professor, UNSW Law & Justice and UNSW Institute for Climate Risk & Response, UNSW
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Professor of Environmental Science, University of South Africa
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ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Adelaide University
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Senior Principal Research Scientist, Environment, CSIRO
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Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Professor, Australian National University
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