Port St Johns is mourning the death of 86-year-old Ben Dekker, an eccentric actor, mentor, and environmentalist celebrated as a gentle giant across the Wild Coast.
Drone footage reveals the dire state of the Qinira River as untreated sewage continues to pour into local waterways, leaving exhausted civic leaders and residents to battle infrastructure collapse and municipal silence alone.
Estuary management forums are acting as the last line of defence for vulnerable coastal ecosystems like the Qinira Estuary, rallying public resistance amid municipal failures and mounting sewage pollution.
Environmental educator Dean Knox explains why raw sewage spills in estuaries like Nahoon and Qinira pose a disastrous threat to critical coastal biodiversity.
The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment has halted sardine fishing while reviewing new management measures following a massive die-off linked to pilchard herpesvirus.
Southern Africa is facing growing risks of severe drought and water shortages as an unprecedented El Niño builds, the World Meteorological Organisation warns, though local forecasters urge calm and close monitoring.
The newly declared Grasslands National Park in the Eastern Cape protects over 10,000 hectares of vital water catchments and rare wildlife through an innovative biodiversity stewardship partnership with private landowners.
Investigations into the recent surge of flying insects across Buffalo City have identified them as non-biting midges from the Sciaridae family, posing no health threat to residents as numbers begin to subside.
