Scorched is a vivid journey through southern Africa's mesmerising landscapes as climate change sets in. It wanders through the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands to capture the last faltering calls of a rain frog that was named after the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. Author Leonie Joubert pauses for thought following an elephant stampede to consider how savannahs might shift in an altered … [Read more...]
Boiling Point
The Ruth First Memorial Lecture: When you tug on a single thing in nature, the conservationist and writer John Muir once wrote, you find it attached to the rest of the world. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the climate crisis. Tugging on a thread of our shared atmosphere in China or the US, by shunting pollution into the skies there, is causing the fabric of local … [Read more...]
