However, while that may be the case, South Africa only ranks 38th on the Climate Change Performance Index so we have to make some effort to change things for the betterment of the whole world.

Africa, like other regions, has to come to terms with the reality that climate change is already happening, according to Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko, the African Union commissioner for agriculture ...

A global review of extreme heat has found that between May 2024 and May 2025, nearly half the world's people (49% or 4 ...

South Africa is feeling the impacts of global warming. Heat is frequent and more intense. Human-induced climate change made the severe 2015–2017 drought three to six times more likely. But ...

South African National Parks spokesperson Isaac Phaahla said the Kruger National Park has a unit that is looking at mitigating solutions for the negative effects of climate change.

South Africa faces significant climate change challenges given its high dependency on coal energy and physical concentration of nature-related risks. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change ...

A multi-national collaborative effort by scientists has found that human-induced climate change worsened drought severity in the Horn of Africa. That drought has left 4.35 million people in need ...

Worryingly, temperatures across southern Africa are predicted to increase by at least 0.8⁰C by 2035.. Malaria is currently present in three provinces in South Africa: Limpopo, Mpumalanga and ...

South Africa is slowly lifting out of the water – by up to two millimeters per year depending on the region. It had been assumed up to now that this phenomenon was due to mantle flow in the ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law a broad climate change act that will set caps for large emitters and require every town and city to publish an adaptation plan.