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WATCH | Eskom board should consolidate strategies and act - Analyst

The Eskom board should consolidate the utility's many strategies and execute them without any confusion. That is according to Stellenbosch Univer

Fish fossils dating back 440 million years are helping to "fill some of the key gaps" on how humans evolved from fish, researchers said

Researchers: Fish fossils fill 'key gaps' on human evolution

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Two fossil deposits of ancient fish in Guizhou, southern China, and Chongqing in the southwest were discovered by scientists during a field study in 2

Earth's climate is changing so quickly that humanity is running out of chances to fix it, primatologist Jane Goodall -- pictured on January 22, 2020 -- has warned in an interview

Goodall: Climate change at point of no return

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Earth's climate is changing so quickly that humanity is running out of chances to fix it, primatologist Jane Goodall has warned.

MeToo rallies kicked off in the United States and swept the world

Five years on, how #MeToo shook the world

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By forcing the world to wake up to the daily sexual abuse suffered by women, the #MeToo movement became a social revolution of historic importance.

Major football stadium tragedies

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The stampede at a domestic football match in Indonesia that led to at least 129 deaths late on Saturday is the latest in a long line of football stadi

Gorgonian coral forests are seen as biodiversity hotspots

Mediterranean corals ravaged by underwater heat 'inferno'

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Marine heatwaves are becoming more common, according to a report this year by UN climate experts.

Five steps you can take to manage a hike in interest rates

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Before the economic situation goes from bad to worse, the impact of rising prices – and rising interest rates – can be mitigated in a combination of w

Discussion | Mpho Makwana is new Eskom board chair

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eNCA speaks to energy expert, David Lipschitz after Minister Pravin Gordhan announced the new Eskom board.

Flared natural gas is burned off at Apache Corporations operations at the Deadwood natural gas plant in the Permian Basin in 2015

Gas flares vastly underperform, causing greater climate impact: study

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Flaring -- burning off unwanted natural gas from oil and gas wells -- releases five times more of the potent greenhouse gas methane into the atmospher