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There is "no evidence of a safe level of exposure or a threshold below which no adverse health effects occur", says environmental epidemiologist Rico Euripidou on the impacts of a coal mine fire that has been burning for weeks.
An occasional column based on glimpses of the goings-on at Cape Town port – and how politics and economics are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.
This is what it looks like when unregulated, illegal mining meets governance failure – a fire in a coal mine that has been burning for weeks, leaving nearby communities choking in the fumes. Perhaps most worryingly, nobody knows the extent to which fires may be burning underground.
Minister Barbara Creecy has outlined the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment’s key priority areas for the 2022/2023 financial year — and responded to reports that weather warnings before the April floods in KwaZulu-Natal had been inadequate. Minister Barbara Creecy has outline...
The floods that ravaged KwaZulu-Natal in early April destroyed thousands of homes and displaced an estimated 40,000 people. As extreme weather events become more common in a changing climate, even more people are at risk of displacement. Our Burning Planet visited the province and spoke to some...