KIMBERLEY – Sol Plaatje Municipality’s problems don’t seem to be getting smaller, as effluent from Goga Pump Station can now almost be seen from space, satellite images show. Watch! According to Shell Curtis Goliath, a Kimberley community leader, raw effluent from the pump stations at Gogga is still a major problem less than 50m from […]
USA – A kind-hearted woman has rescued and rehabilitated animals for years but she was recently raided and her animals killed because she didn’t have a permit. Read more on The Freethought Project.
A homeless man from Cape Town came to the rescue of kittens who were left to fend for themselves in an abandoned house in Woodstock. Read more on IOL.
FREE STATE – An 18-year-old Bloemfontein matriculant, who recently scored seven distinctions in her final exams, made a wild discovery on Monday 1 March, after she found a baboon hiding underneath her mother’s vehicle in the city. Read more on OFM.
Annie, ’n renosterkalfie van sowat ses maande oud, is deur die Rhino Orphanage naby Mokopane in Limpopo ingeneem en ontvang traumabehandeling nadat haar ma die afgelope week deur stropers doodgemaak is. Lees meer op Netwerk24.
The number of monarch butterflies that showed up at their winter resting grounds in central Mexico decreased by about 26% this year, and four times as many trees were lost to illegal logging, drought and other causes, making 2020 a bad year for the butterflies. The government commission for natural protected areas said the butterflies’ […]
Almost 10 years after scientists discovered the first cracks, a huge iceberg broke off from the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Read more on Reuters.
A team of researchers from Indonesia and Singapore has found evidence of the continued existence of a bird long thought extinct. In their paper published in the journal BirdingASIA, the team describes the history of the bird, why it was thought to be extinct and how it was found in Borneo. Read more on Phys.org.
NAMIBIA – In the vastness of one of the world’s oldest deserts lies a relatively recent geologic feature: the Roter Kamm crater (“Red Comb” in German). An astronaut onboard the International Space Station photographed the crater while orbiting over the Namib Desert. It is approximately 130 meters (430 feet)… Read more on SciTechDaily.