Nanotechnology is the use of materials that are one-billionth of a metre (a nanometre) in size. One of its potential uses is ...

The water crisis demands bold decisions and real implementation—before deteriorating systems cause irreversible damage.

Despite a 2012 court order Carolina residents are still struggling with contaminated water. People living in Phola and Carolina in Mpumalanga are bearing the brunt of coal mining pollution in the ...

Barely a day passes without some media coverage of the dire state of South Africa’s water resources and infrastructure. One of the major contributors to this is sewage pollution from ...

The contamination cascades through food webs and poisons river water, plants and animals. Before 1994 in South Africa, African communities were forcibly relocated to places near mine dumps in ...

South Africa 5. They used advanced analytical techniques to quantify PFAS in treated effluent, sediment, and water samples and revealed that PFAS concentrations in surface water exceeded the ...

South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. It found that newborns in East Africa are disproportionately affected by air pollution, especially household air pollution from cooking, heating and lighting ...

It involves manipulating atoms and molecules at nanoscale. Water pollution in South Africa, as in other developing countries, poses a significant health and economic threat. South Africa's ...

The report shows the “immense scale” of the acid mine drainage caused by coal mines. The Upper Olifants River catchment, its ...