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Santiago Zuluaga Castañeda, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC); Arjun Amar, University of Cape Town, and Megan Murgatroyd, University of Cape Town Birds of prey and vultures (raptors) play a vital role in ecosystems, both as top predators and key…
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Nature Is Our Home: Five ways you can look after it From the fynbos of the Cape to the wetlands of KwaZulu-Natal, the grasslands of the Free State to the wild coastlines of the Eastern Cape, South Africa is one…
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Communities urged to adopt sustainable, humane food choices as environmental pressures mount Cape Town, 03 June 2026 — As South Africa marks World Environment Day on 05 June and the start of National Environment Month, global animal welfare organisation FOUR PAWS…
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AFRICA’S EVIDENCE SHOWS A DIFFERENT FUTURE FOR FOOD AND FARMING This major new briefing paper and accompanying evidence compendium challenge one of the most entrenched assumptions in global agriculture: that synthetic pesticides are essential to food security. Grounded in African farming realities, this database…
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Why you have to stop using Roundup (glyphosate) I nearly went ballistic, well I did actually go ballistic when my neighbour’s gardener told me he was spraying Roundup on her patch of grass. This prompted me to ask for a…
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South Africa is one of the world’s most biodiverse countries, which makes conservation all the more important. The biggest obstacle to caring for the planet, however, is the idea that nature is somewhere else: the Karoo, the Kruger, a wildlife…
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Nick Haslam, The University of Melbourne Psychology, it’s said, has a long past but a short history. A popular version lists three stages. First, around the turn of the 20th century, psychologists tried to capture the stream of conscious experience…
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How individual consciousness works – and makes us unique Peter Coppola, University of Cambridge and Emmanuel A Stamatakis, University of Cambridge As we go through life, our brains run different processing modes. Some – the attention and sensory systems – result…
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The past year marked a major shift in how we build things. We’re seeing emerging nature-inspired innovations moving well beyond just copying how nature looks. We’re now in the bio-inspired re)evolution, where humanity is advancing how we learn from nature to…
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If you thought national security was only about borders, armies, and cyber threats, think again. In January 2026, the UK government released something extraordinary: a national security assessment declaring that global ecosystem degradation and collapse threaten national security and prosperity….
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FOUR PAWS reminds us that protecting animals and the environment starts with what’s on our plate. On World Environmental Education Day, FOUR PAWS is spotlighting a critical issue: the link between meat, dairy and egg consumption, climate change and animal…
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Carlos Coronel, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez and Agustín Ibáñez, Trinity College Creative experience might enhance brain health, which could slow down the brain’s ageing. That’s according to a study by a group of international scientists across 13 countries. They found that…
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Anthony Turton, University of the Free State Water is often taken for granted, if you’re lucky enough to have it coming out of taps. Yet it lies at the heart of national security. Controlling water means having control over a…
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What makes a product sustainable? Sustainability is a word that gets thrown around like compost at a community garden… well-intentioned, but messy. Learn Biomimicry Here’s our definition of sustainable products for this article: Sustainable products meet the needs of the…
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Erin Fitz-Henry, The University of Melbourne “Climate change is racist”. So reads the title of a recent book by British journalist Jeremy Williams. While this title might seem provocative, it’s long been recognised that people of colour suffer disproportionate harms…
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I never consented to being a cyborg – did you? Richard Asher ponders the impacts of tech and the loss of analogue choices. A few questions, if I may. Do you care that soon – if not already – you will…
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“Reduce, reuse, recycle.” For more than 50 years, those three Rs have been the world’s go-to environmental mantra. On the face of it, the three Rs sound like an empowering call for each of us to play our part for…
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The AI revolution risks deepening inequality between the global north and south. Clarote & AI4Media/betterimagesofai.org, CC BY-SA Rachel Adams, University of Cape Town If it’s steered correctly, artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to accelerate development. It can drive breakthroughs…
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Anusha Rajkaran, University of the Western Cape and Conrad Sparks, Cape Peninsula University of Technology Imagine a perfectly round, plastic ball smaller than a pinhead. That’s what a microbead is. They’ve been included in facial scrubs, toothpaste, household cleaners and…
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by Katie Losey | Originally published on the Biomimicry Institute and Medium The ultimate freak show is an understatement: Armed worms, sex-crazed fish, poison-hungry butterflies, polka-dotted flying good luck charms, and the most despicable creature born with a grin whose blood fights gravity….
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