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Members of the public have until the end of Friday to register their comments in terms of the scoping assessment of Total’s application to mine a block of seabed offshore between Mossel Bay and Cape St Francis for gas.

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Politics, livelihoods and the environment overlapped on Tuesday night at a meeting in the Feather Market Hall centred on a new Total offshore gas mining project application.

There comes a time when certain residents of the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation are ready to return to the sea. It’s a farewell and a homecoming.

Cold Records Get Ignored, Cold records are being set at various places around the world, or in some cases no temperature change has been noted for decades.

The oceans absorb more than 90 percent of all extra heat trapped by the emissions we've produced by burning fossil fuels.

Unstudied at sea until recently, this huge, fast-moving ocean current may hold a key to resolving climate change uncertainties. But doing remote research in southern oceans poses financial, data gathering, and unexpected challenges.

A 30m-wide whirlpool seen in the ocean off the Wild Coast could be linked to climate change. Photographed on August 17 by Green Scorpion Robert Stegmann during a routine SAPS air patrol, the images show one and possibly even two of the spinning holes in the ocean. Whirlpools are dangerous for ocean users and this one was 245m off Rame Head point, East London Museum principal natural scientist Kevin Cole said.

During an oceanographic research cruise it became clear that the devastating April Durban floods dumped huge amounts of litter into the sea.  

Sixty million people in this region directly depend on the sea for food and livelihoods