South Africa is one of the world’s top three mega biodiverse nations along with Brazil and Indonesia, said Environment Forestry and Fisheries Minister Barbara Creecy in her address to the Oppenheimer Research Conference (ORC). “We are thus one of the r…
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South Africa is well placed to be taking advantage of the climate-positive hydrogen fuel economy, Environment, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Barbara Creecy said on Tuesday. “We’re richly endowed with platinum, so I think that it’s very important that…
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Among the tens of thousands of Brazilians who descended on the Amazonian goldmine of Serra Pelada in the 1980s was Percy Geraldo Bolsonaro, father of the current president, Jair Bolsonaro.
Bolsonaro senior was among the wildcat miners who endured brut…
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Norway’s government warned companies present in Brazil against any involvement in deforestation amid escalating international criticism of the Latin-American country’s management of the Amazon rainforest.
Amid raging wildfires in the rainforest, Franc…
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Chile will begin budgeting for the costs of fighting climate change, Finance Minister Felipe Larraín announced on Tuesday, as receding glaciers and drought put a squeeze on water and natural resources in the world’s top copper producer.
The South Amer…
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Climate change is likely to contribute to the deterioration of water quality in South Africa’s rivers and dams which, SRK Consulting partner and principal water and environmental scientist Manda Hinsch says may result in water authorities “raising the …
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Mining and transport firm Grupo Mexico said on Tuesday that it does not expect its operations to be impacted by the partial closing of its Guaymas facility on the Gulf of California.
Mexico’s environmental prosecutor Profepa said on Saturday that it h…
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In February, De Beers announced it was consolidating its assets in South Africa and Canada into one entity called De Beers Group Managed Operations. At…
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SANTIAGO, CHILE — In a landmark ruling, Argentina’s Supreme Court has upheld radical legislation to protect the country’s glaciers, with major implications for the mining…
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The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association has called on the Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) not to threaten investment in the state’s major industries.
The call comes after the EPA opened a 12-week rou…
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