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Global Warming
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Plane Lands Sideways In 110 km/h Winds – Decides To Go Around [Video]
24 Nov 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
The whole world seems to be experiencing arb weather extremities. The UK’s second named storm seems to be on a mission to claim some victims.
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Everything You Need To Know About The Drought Crisis [Video Infographic]
20 Nov 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
As the drought descends on South Africa, it’s important to know just how it will affect us. Watch this infographic for more information…
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SA Drought Crisis – Watch This To Get An Idea Of What Is Going On [Video]
11 Nov 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
Take a look at behind the scenes to see why SA’s bread prices are set to increase because of the onset of the worst drought in SA’s history.
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Guys, South Africa Is About To Enter A Catastrophic Water Crisis
06 Nov 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
Parts of South Africa have now been declared disaster zones as the drought issue prevails and water sources are scarce.
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SA In Trouble As Droughts Loom To Add To Our Economic Crisis
04 Nov 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
South Africa is experiencing its worst drought since ’92 and, well, on top of everything else that seems to be spiralling out of control, we might be in a lil’ pile of shit.
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This Is How Bad The Storm Was In Cape Town This Weekend [Images]
02 Nov 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
The weather in Cape Town has been a little confused as to which season we’re in, treating us to blistering summer and frightfully wintery days in one week.
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Mexican Drought Lowers Lake Water Level 25m – Reveals Ancient Church [Incredible Images]
19 Oct 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
As water levels drop in Mexico, a beautiful piece of colonial history is revealed, and here are the incredible photo’s for our viewing pleasure.
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Holy Shit – BMW Factory Runs On Waste And Cow Dung [Video]
16 Oct 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
BMW is a game changer when it comes to sustainability – and a new factory just north of Pretoria uses what’s left over from nearby farms to generate power.
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Everything You Need To Know About Sandton’s Road Closures For The Month Of October
29 Sep 2015 by Sloane Hunter / 1 Comment
During the month of October, the City of Johannesburg has decided to encourage the use of public transport in an effort to relieve traffic congestion. Here’s all the information.
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The Refugee Crisis Is Tame, According To Elon Musk [Video]
25 Sep 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
Elon Musk stood in front of a crow in Berlin to preach about the effects of climate change. The gist of it? The Syrian refugee movement is just the beginning of what is going to be a world wide phenomenon that’s going screw us all over.
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Things Go From Bad To Shit For Volkswagen As Global Scandal Impacts SA Jobs
23 Sep 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
Volkswagen’s lil mess has created a global ripple effect that has now hit South Africa, but until there is a more solid understanding of what those effects will be, experts can only predict for now.
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Isn’t It Convenient That Homo Naledi Was Revealed The Day After Rupert Murdoch Bought NatGeo?
11 Sep 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
Sometimes, there are theories that are based upon coincidences and this is one – so take it as you will, but please note: Rupert is a climate change denier.
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Earth Just Had Its Hottest June Ever – But That’s Not All
21 Jul 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
It may not have felt like it down here in SA but the world actually had a rather warm June. That’s not all, climate change denialists, there’s another touch of science to crush your dreams.
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Radical Aerial Shots Show Sewerage Dumped Along Cape Town’s Atlantic Seaboard [Video]
15 Jun 2015 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s about time us humans start looking after our planet a bit better. I know some of us are trying, and it doesn’t come cheap, but at this rate we’re going to have nothing left.
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Guys, This Is The First Warm-Blooded Fish Ever
15 May 2015 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You’d be forgiven for thinking this fish is tiny and from the tropics and that you could keep it in your tropical tank at home in the lounge. Think again…
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Rhino On Village Rampage – 1 Woman Dead, Scores Injured
31 Mar 2015 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I’m just going to throw it out there and ask you just how badly you want to touch the fluff on the rhino’s ears… Yes, really.
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SERIOUS WARNING: The World Is Running Out Of Chocolate
17 Nov 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If the world runs out of chocolate we can also eliminate the idea of women ruling the world, because it would literally be unstoppable war over the last few bars of mint Aero.
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Fantastic: This Extinct Snail Is Actually Alive
09 Sep 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
With hundreds of animals/insects/creatures/things on the endangered species list, we can really call it a miracle when one of them comes off, and re-emerges in the wild, without any human intervention…
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Japan Typhoon Mudslide Captured On Camera This Week [Video]
11 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
This part of the world may ordinarily be one of the most tranquil and beautiful holiday destinations, but this is not an easy place to live and if storms like this continue to strengthen, these people will have to move permanently. Global climate change anyone?
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Well Done, Humans – We’re Heading For A ‘Sixth Great Extinction’
30 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We humans are such narcissists sometimes a mass extinction might be what we deserve.
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The Carbon Price Of The Tech ‘Cloud’ Will Shock You
03 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
With more of us using the digital ether that is the Cloud platform, the technology is replacing physical storage of old (CDs, DVDs, magazines and floppy disks) and provides users with an invisible mainframe to maintain one’s digital life. But although the Cloud may seem intangible, somewhere in the world, massive servers are chowing through electricity.
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The Doomsday Clock Shows 5 Minutes To 12 – ‘Civilisation Catastrophe’ Is Imminent
16 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Originally created as an analogy for the threat of global nuclear war, the Doomsday Clock still hangs on a board in the University of Chicago – and still ticks over with doomsday predictions.
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The Dead Sea Is Drying Up And This Is How They Plan To Fill It Up Again
10 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The River Jordan is being dried up for use in irrigation, which has led the Dead Sea’s water levels to drop by about a metre every 12 months. The middle-eastern nations have reacted quickly, and signed an agreement that might just bring the Dead Sea back.
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Energy Problem Solved: Tokyo Company Wants To Put Solar Panels All Over The Moon
29 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well, they don’t want to put solar panels ALL OVER the moon, they just want to to put a cheeky little 400 kilometer-wide belt of solar panels around the moon. Casual.
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Incredible Footage Captures Typhoon Haiyan [VIDEO]
13 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
With a maximum sustained wind speed estimated at 315kph, Typhoon Haiyan was probably the strongest tropical typhoon to make landfall in recorded history, meteorologists say.
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If We Let The Ice Caps Melt, London & Amsterdam Will Disappear [SEE HERE]
05 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 9 Comments
National Geographic recently compiled an interactive map that allows us to examine what the Earth might look like if we allow all the sea-ice to melt. It is estimated that if said ice does melt, the ocean will rise by a full 66 metres. And anyone who knows how the ocean works will know that 66 metres is a stupendously ridiculous number that will have massive effects on the landscape.
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Mindblowing: Chinese City Shuts Down Due To ‘Choking’ Smog [GALLERY]
22 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
When it comes to air pollution, China is pretty much the worst. Chinese citizens are used to grey skies in summer, acid rain in winter and choking smog all year round, but nothing quite like this has ever happened. Harbin, the rough-and-tough capital city of Heilongjiang province is home to some 11 million people – all of whom tried to evacuate at the same time, when pollution reached critical levels just yesterday.
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You Need To See This Maldives Island Completely Covered In Rubbish
21 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Maldives – well known for it’s crystal blue waters, brilliant white sands and those boats with the glass bottoms that let you see the coral reefs. This is the last place on earth you’d associate with the word “rubbish dump”. But there’s something sordid just a stone’s throw away from the swankiest hotels on earth. There’s something smelly on the horizon. It is ‘Rubbish Island’, and it stinks to high hell.
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This Building In London Is Melting Parked Cars [PIC]
03 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Another skyscraper is being added to the London skyline and usually, when this happens, complaints roll in about the view being spoiled, but that’s not entirely the case for the latest addition, dubbed, the ‘Walkie Talkie’. Complaints about this one have to do with melting expensive cars.
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Heads Up: The North Pole Has Frigging Melted [PIC]
25 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The North Pole Environmental Observatory has stated that the summer ice in the North Pole is melting away. Where there used to be snow, there is now meltwater.
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