Important Issues: La Nina in full swing. Above average rainfall expected for December and first part of January for the Summer Rainfall Area and further rain for the Winter Rainfall Area in the first part of December.

Throughout this past summer, wildfires ravaged forests from California to Siberia, devastating wildlife, and turning entire communities to dust.

Pitching these solutions to voters is far from enticing: if we all work really hard, make meaningful sacrifices, undertake immense adjustments to our lifestyles, and, most importantly, can ensure that absolutely everyone else will do the same thing, then we might – potentially – not be doomed by the time many of us will anyway be dead.

Two weeks of deliberations at high-level global talks to address the climate crisis have left a bitter taste in the mouths of campaigners, with indications suggesting all is not fair in climate-change diplomacy. 

Agriculture, forestry and other land use (Afolu) in South Africa is significantly threatened, with export earnings, farm and plantation workers' livelihoods and food availability at risk.

Does cold air go down because the earth’s core is made out of magma and does hot air go up because it’s cold out in space – and does the circle repeat?