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This researcher found billions in ‘invisible’ gold in Jo’burg’s mine…
Johannesburg, South Africa – As a teenager living on the East Rand of Johannesburg, Steve Chingwaru thought the flat-topped mounds of rock and earth that dott
The Alabama town living and dying in the shadow of…
For decades the two companies dumped DDT, mercury and other toxic chemicals in the area. In the 1980s, the US government created the Superfund programme, which
How India is racing against time to save the endangered…
101 East reveals how India is fighting to conserve its population of one of the world’s rarest animals.In the eastern Himalayas of India, a fight is under way
Malaysia plans ‘orangutan diplomacy’ in palm oil pitch
Commodities minister says critically endangered animals could be given to countries that buy Malaysia’s palm oil.Malaysia has said it plans to start an “ora
The everyday items you never knew contained plastic
This week, the fourth round of treaty talks by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution concluded in Ottawa, Canada. A major bone of con
‘First time’: Wild orangutan performs self-medication
A Sumatran orangutan named Rakus was seen using a plant to treat a facial wound possibly sustained during a fight.An orangutan in Indonesia has been observed ap
