Scientists from Wits University are calling for a fundamental rethink of how natural climate solutions are implemented across Africa, in the lead up to COP30.
Lifestyle changes will be of more benefit in the fight against climate change than industrialised solutions such as electric vehicles.
Arts and science interrogate water, energy, and food precarity at conference-exhibition.
New study formally and scientifically attributes the extreme nature of the floods to climate change.
The Nature Relationship Index offers a new way of of measuring how countries use and protect natural resources.
The study identifies 195 million hectares globally where tree restoration will deliver maximum climate benefits without harming communities or ecosystems.
How political interference and underfunding did the damage. Water needs to be managed at a local level, so that communities have a say in their own supply.
We have just had the final text negotiated at COP28 in Dubai.
Wits professor at COP28 says that business as usual is no longer possible
Global experts in social and natural sciences unveiled the annual 10 New Insights in Climate Science Report.
The new R110 million project aims to improve early warnings and enhance resilience to changing tropical cyclones in southern Africa and Madagascar.
Continued extreme heat exposure is affecting the health of vulnerable groups in communities.
Poverty drives vulnerability to climate risks in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Here are 4 factors that affect how residents adapt.
Coleen Vogel, Professor at the Global Change Institute among experts who propose the adoption of practical wisdom in the fight against climate change.
Wits’ Global Change Institute among global scientists calling for a mindset shift about climate change which draws from various knowledge systems
Achieving access to minimum resources and services for all, while safeguarding our planet, requires redistribution and societal transformation.
Climate change took nearly a century to become mainstream science. Wits is taking the lead in facing up to the challenge.
Known as ting or amazimba, indigenous sorghum is resilient and rich in cultural and health benefits – yet crops are declining.
Twelve Wits researchers are contenders for the prestigious NSTF-South32 Awards for 2021/2022, four of whom were nominated in two categories each.
Ndoni Mcunu, Wits PhD candidate, climate scientist, and the driving force behind Black Women in Science passed away on April 16.
Programme aims to identify African ecosystem vulnerabilities while leveraging African-informed transformative change opportunities.
Pre-eminent climatologist says science can help prepare for what’s coming.
The report makes it clear that climate change is widespread, rapid, intensifying and unprecedented in thousands of years.
Scholes’ students describe him as a ‘giant savanna tree providing shade in the heat, shelter in the rain, and a point of reference to navigate by’.
Wits University is saddened by the passing of Professor Bob Scholes, one of the world’s leading scientists on Climate Change.
The NRF has re-awarded A-ratings to four Wits scientists, a grading which confirms that they are recognised as leading international scholars in their fields.
Wits conservation scientist, Dr Bernard Coetzee received the prestigious Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer grant for his work on light pollution.
Symposium coincides with the publication of their article on environmental drivers and the potential seasonality of COVID-19.
Data from 2.7 million human activity records show just how extensive human use of Antarctica has been over the last 200 years.
By identifying the roots of global ills there's an opportunity for coordinated action as countries lay new pathways for a post-Covid world.
The science to policy process that was developed to guide climate mitigation decisions can be applied to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Future Earth Report is an overview of some of the various risks faced by humanity, where it comes to our sustainable future on the planet.
An internationally respected group of scientists, including Professor Francois Engelbrecht Wits have urgently called for world leaders to tackle climate change.
Professor Francois Engelbrecht from the Wits GCI stresses climate risks for southern Africa in talk on Africa’s projected climate change futures in Accra, Ghana
GCI Director Barend Erasmus gives insight into the latest alarming IPCC Special Report on Global Warming.
Profile: As a photographer, swimmer and researcher, Dyani Jeram’s life is all about water.
