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Lake St Lucia 'seriously ill'
26/02/2009 18:21
World renowned Lake St Lucia, home to hundreds of crocodiles and hippopotami, is seriously ill, according to a leading scientist. The diagnosis is acute dehydration.
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Spray your tag on West Bank wall
26/02/2009 14:45
Over the internet, a group of Palestinian graffiti artists
is offering to spray-paint your personal message on the
towering security wall that separates Israel from the Palestinians.
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Developments threaten estuaries
26/02/2009 14:10
The greatest threat to the scenic, species-rich estuaries strung along South Africa's coastline is not climate change, but ribbon housing development fuelled by greedy municipalities.
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East Antarctica: Bigger threat
26/02/2009 12:40
Antarctica's western ice sheet is pushing ever faster into the sea, but scientists know an even greater long-term threat lies in the vast, little-explored whiteness of east Antarctica.
Glacier status very worrying
Study confirms faster ice-melt
Alp-sized peaks in Antarctic ice
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Vet in demand for weird ops
26/02/2009 10:33
Michael Pavletic has removed a butcher's knife from a dog's stomach and tumours from tiny mice. But he draws the line at liposuction for fat cats.
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The US could
raise nearly $52 billion in revenue over the next decade by
lifting a three-year-old ban on internet gambling and taxing the
activity instead.
After four launch delays, Nasa says it now believes the space shuttle Discovery could be sent on a mission to the orbiting International Space Station (ISS) by mid-March.
South Africans should back the country's bid to host a giant radio telescope as enthusiastically as they did the Soccer World Cup, a top scientist said.
Scientists say the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is swiftly evolving to avoid the body's immune defences, a phenomenon that adds to the Aids vaccine challenge.
Bushfires that have scorched
Australia's Victoria state released millions of tonnes of
carbon dioxide and forest fires could become a growing source
of carbon pollution as the planet warms.
