Underwater earthquake in SA
An underwater earthquake was detected on Wednesday evening by the Severe Weather and Information Center SA.It is recorded as a moderate earthquake, with a magnitude of about 5.3. It occurred…
Guinness Book of records for weather conditions
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), has revamped official archives of weather and climate extremes, calling them the “Guinness Book of records” on temperatures, rainfall, wind, lightning, hail etc. The WMO…
Tricky balance : Sustainable Mining
With protest action rife, especially against open-cast mining, how will minerals to support a cleaner economy be sourced? The Central African Copperbelt is the largest and highest grade sediment-hosted stratabound…
Minerals for a Green economy
The transition to a net-zero society will require everybody, to leave no one behind. In its latest attempt to the mining sector, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has detailed some…
Wits researchers pioneer a new way of searching for Dark Matter
Dark matter is unseen.It is so dark that it does not reflect light, which makes it hard to spot out there in the universe. The University of the Witwatersrand researchers,…
Cosy weekend ahead
South Africans are expected to cosy up in the dark for at least 4 – 6 hours a day starting from today until Monday. Eskom says loadshedding stage 6 kickstarts…
Stay out of the sun
The SAWS (South African Weather Service) has advised people to stay out of the sun, stay hydrated, wear lose clothes and not leave animals and children in parked vehicles. This,…
Did you know this about our food basket?
Did you know that the Free State has sizeable investment projects and opportunities? Count some of these projects, highlighted at the Free State’s energy Indaba this week? Plans by Sasol…
Blombos Cave shells discovery
SapienCE Researchers, Francesco d’Errico, Karen Loise van Niekerk, Lila Geis and Christopher Stuart Henshilwood, have published a new study supporting a multistep evolutionary scenario for the culturalization of the human…
Hottest September since the 1900s
The World Meteriological Organization (WMO) says the earth just had the hottest September on record, since the 1900s. “September had an average surface temperature of 16.38°C. This was 0.5°C above…