Anyone who takes a walk along our Cape Town beaches and rivers can testify: we are drowning Mother Nature in waste – whether from individual consumers or household products, industrial waste and even medical waste. If you have not seen this, then it is due to volunteer groups cleaning up these sections for us. One area that is especially vulnerable to such pollution is where … [Read more...]
NASA launches carbon tracking satellite
The ability of scientists to make accurate predictions about future effects of CO2 will be boosted by vital data from a new US satellite sent to take a detailed inventory of the planet’s sinks and sources of carbon. The US space agency NASA sent up a satellite on 2 June, which will provide vital data for predicting future effects of CO2by taking the measure of the planetary … [Read more...]
SKA SA research fellow publishes in Nature
University of the Western Cape (UWC) researcher, Dr Mattia Vaccari recently co-authored a Nature paper that could help explain the mystery of large elliptical galaxies in an early Universe. Vaccari is an SKA SA postdoctoral fellow in UWC's astrophysics group. For this prestigious publication, he was part of a team of scientists that observed what seems to be the collision … [Read more...]
Global CO2 emissions cross threshold
According to the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have reached 400ppm. The Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii announced that the average carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the atmosphere crossed the threshold of 400ppm (parts per million) on May 10. Atmospheric levels of CO2 have been steadily rising for 200 years, ever … [Read more...]
Celebrate the important things this Valentine’s Day
Love is in the air. The weather is scorchingly beautiful and Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. We live in a part of the world where there are plenty of eco-friendly and inexpensive ways to celebrate love on this day. As is the case with most special days, this day started out with noble intentions as a simple celebration of love, and has evolved into another … [Read more...]
