The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is currently in a La Niña state, and forecasts indicate that it will likely return to a neutral state by autumn (Mar-Apr-May).

The business landscape is becoming more digitally driven and data-oriented than ever before.

April is an important month in South Africa's agricultural sector, especially for field crops.

The latest monthly Seasonal Climate Watch issued last week by the South African Weather Service, which makes tentative five-month predictions, is chilling. The current one extends to August, with an outlook for wider potential trends beyond that.

The World Economic Forum says the ‘cost of living crisis’ is the single largest threat to the global economy this year.

Here’s Why the Amazon is So Important for Global Food Security

The World Meteorological Organisation’s (WMO’s) declaration comes against the backdrop of already blistering temperatures worldwide and things are seen heating up from here.

It's the winter chill relinquishes its grip on South Africa, the nation is bracing for an enigmatic weather phenomenon that has the potential to disrupt the delicate balance of its ecosystems and communities: El Niño. 

Faster action is needed to address Antarctica’s extreme weather, a new report warns.

Extreme weather events have dominated the news this summer, with reports on extensive wildfires in Canada; dangerous flooding in India, Japan, and the Eastern U.S.; severe heat waves in Spain, China, the United States, and Mexico; and the hottest day ever recorded on Earth.

The Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) is a period of global warming that occurred ~56 million years ago, lasting approximately 200,000 years, when the Earth experienced global surface temperature elevations of ~5°C.

South Africa's cattle are currently suffering from mild heat stress, higher greenhouse gas emissions, and land-use changes could see the severity of heat stress worsen, exposing 13 million cattle to five times more severe heat stress, new research shows.

Understanding the potential effect of the typically hotter and drier El Niño phenomenon on agriculture and food security in South Africa in the upcoming months is crucial, experts say.

The latest monthly Climate Watch issued by the SA Weather Service — which looks five months ahead — is little changed from the previous, but there has been a shift.  

Climate change is a self-fulfilling prophecy that encompasses the annihilation of nature.. We will be able to survive climate change, but we will not be able to survive the loss of nature over the next 20 years. It is now time to implement real solutions and take action….

El Niño has returned. Here’s what the phenomenon means for extreme weather and global warming.

We must see our planet, the living Earth, as one functioning organism, with all species and ecosystems playing a role in establishing the conditions for life to thrive in a hostile universe.

In a briefing to Parliament’s portfolio committee on forestry, fisheries and the environment on Tuesday, South Africa’s negotiating team for the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) outlined their focus for the conference in Dubai from 30 November to 12 December.