On Sunday evening, numerous residents in the Devil’s Peak area reported seeing people lighting fires on the mountain. One resident, and his dogs, sprang into action.
Kristi and Happy Wade were preparing to take their cat, Caroline, to the vet, when a rabid bobcat entered the fray and all hell broke loose.
SANParks, which manages Table Mountain National Park, is being accused of ignoring warning signs years in the making.
It has been a truly horrific 24 hours in the Mother City, and strong winds are currently hampering firefighting efforts as heroes battle the flames on the front lines.
Craig Foster and his octopus teacher may be the stars of the show, but the Cape kelp forest ecosystem is the real unsung hero.
On Monday night, Florida residents watched on as the night sky lit up, with a fireball blazing across the horizon.
Got a tissue nearby? You’ll need it after watching this heartwarming video of a rescue Staffie saving her Pomeranian friend from drowning in a pool.
A lightning bolt in the US was captured striking a tree with perfect aim, and totally destroying it in the process.
Sailors off the coast of Morocco resorted to desperate measures to get rid of killer whales that were damaging their boat.
If you haven’t yet seen it, this viral video of an Asian water monitor lizard climbing the shelves of a 7-Eleven in Thailand is worth a watch.
Elon Musk and his company, Neuralink, are claiming that this monkey is playing ‘Pong’ using only its mind.
Massive swarms of brown locusts have been sweeping through farming communities, decimating crops and grassland as they go.
This short film about a lab bunny, starring some Hollywood heavyweights, draws attention to the cruel practice of cosmetics animal testing.
Attenborough’s latest docuseries is a three-parter that promises us the opportunity to “experience a world that has long been hidden from our eyes”.
Somehow, gender reveal parties are still a thing, and this one sees two lives lost after a plane flying a banner plunges into the ocean.
Plastic pollution causes untold damage to our oceans, although ‘Seaspiracy’, a controversial new doccie on Netflix, says that’s not our biggest worry.
A massive explosion at Balongan oil refinery in West Java, Indonesia, in the early hours of Monday morning caught residents unaware.
If you’ve been likening the awful smell in and around V&A Waterfront to rotting fish, you aren’t wrong.
As large swathes of New South Wales is hit with torrential flooding, spiders and snakes are battling to beat the rising waters.
Unlike other countries that have recently had to navigate volcanic eruptions, Iceland is having a great time turning it all into entertainment.
Some brave drone operators got up close and personal with a volcano in Iceland, giving us a unique look at an eruption.
The latest trend in the pandemic food revolution is mushroom growing, and even South Africans are getting in on it.
If you take into account everything that this home just outside of Robertson has to offer, R75 million doesn’t seem that bad.
A bloke imitating the sound a walrus makes, ginger children everywhere, and thick Irish accents – as far as news reports go, this is top notch.
The judges have issued their verdicts and announced the winners of the World Nature Photography Awards 2020.
Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung sent a cloud of hot ash higher than 16 400 feet into the air following its first major eruption since August last year.
In just a week, a massive fire raging in the mountains and veld above Stellenbosch and Franschhoek managed to spread to three municipalities.
Unless you intend on being knee-deep in mud, you can rule out one of the most iconic ways to see the city of Venice.
A large meteor blazed across UK skies on Sunday night, delighting, and in some cases terrifying, those lucky enough to spot it.
Quick-thinking neighbours helped to save four children, catching them in blankets as a woman dropped them from a third-floor window.