What is making the Simon's Town fire so severe?
Understand what made the fires around Simon’s Town so severe and under which conditions a more dangerous fire could occur.
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Understand what made the fires around Simon’s Town so severe and under which conditions a more dangerous fire could occur.
A fire on Saturday night in Peck’s Valley above Muizenberg, Cape Town, heralded the beginning of the Western Cape fire season.
According to the South African Weather Service, these record-breaking temperatures were the result of strong offshore (northerly to northeasterly winds) conditions along the west coast of South Africa associated with a surface trough off the western part of the country and a dominating high pre...
Malaria-carrying mosquitoes are moving to new habitats as the earth warms up due to climate change. Spotlight asked several local experts what this might mean for malaria in South Africa and efforts to eliminate the parasitic disease. Malaria-carrying mosquitoes are moving to new habitats as th...
Researchers find that extreme fire weather ‘has become 90% more likely in a warmer world’