A ban on all sales of ivory products in China comes into force on Sunday, a move hailed by conservationists as an important step in the fight to protect endangered species such as African elephants

The fence is new: green, imposing and too high to climb over.

More than 50 000 teachers at public schools are living with HIV and most of these teachers can be found in KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Eastern Cape.

The mother of all storms. The worst drought in a century. More intense fires than any in living memory. The hottest years on record. This is the new normal.

The dangers posed by that warming are further exacerbated by a lack of local research into what ocean level increase will do to the coastline this century. (David Harrison)

The Western Cape High Court has set aside a prospecting right application, which could have opened the way for fracking in South Africa.