 After a decade of strained relations, the Health Minister is to consider scientific advisory body to bring policy-makers and scientists together. Health Minister Barbara Hogan is considering setting up an advisory committee to help build the relationship between scientists and politicians, damaged during the Mbeki era.
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 The production of bioethanol may use up to three times as much water as previously thought, a new study finds, becoming the latest work that could burst the biofuel bubble.
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 A proposed development within the Hout Bay beach dunefield system has been refused by the local subcouncil.
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 Plans are being considered to avoid water shortages in Durban and Pietermaritzburg. Umgeni Water is considering a radical plan to recycle sewage and other waste water into drinking-quality tap water.
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 An atlas of potential underground storage sites for carbon dioxide emissions will be compiled for South Africa as part of a plan to be using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology by 2020.
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 The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in South Africa will host a new research centre dedicated to exploring ways of controlling the HIV/tuberculosis co-epidemic. The US$30 million KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH) to be built at the university's Nelson Mandela School of Medicine in Durban, will also train a new generation of African scientists in tuberculosis (TB) and HIV research.
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 Some Welcome Glen residents are said to be continuing their illegal assault on the local baboon troop, repeatedly shooting the animals with pellet guns, birdshot from a shotgun and now even a .22 pistol.
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 A huge population of rare dolphins threatened by climate change and fishing nets has been discovered in South Asia.
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| Recent readings of the high level of cancer-causing benzene near Durban’s Engen petrol refinery has caused much consternation amongst the local community who fear that they may be exposed to serious health risks.
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 Johannesburg - A Centre for Carbon Capture and Storage, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere in South Africa, was unveiled in Johannesburg on Friday. The centre is currently the only technology available to make deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, while still using fossil fuels and much of current energy infrastructure.
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 Cape Town - South Africa's off-shore environmental protection vessel, the Sarah Baartman, returned to Cape Town Harbour on Thursday from a four-nation transboundary fisheries patrol in South African, Tanzanian, Mozambican and Kenyan waters. The joint patrol was aimed at improving and strengthening fisheries surveillance and law enforcement activities within the Southern African Developing Community (SADC) region and along the African coastline.
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 It’s plentiful, it’s homegrown, and it could help clean up the environment while powering our cities. The idea of transforming algae into a fuel is a reality. Nowadays there are numerous implementations of algae into the renewable energy market.
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 The pure electric car manufacturer has already delivered $100,000 Roadsters, which are fun to drive, but get into accidents easily. (I saw one myself last week.) Even Governor Schwarzenegger wants to return his, but only because he's slightly too big to fit.
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