Global Warming
Global Warming is the buzzword of the 21st century, that interests scientists and scares ordinary citizens - has man tampered with nature to a self-destructive point?
The earth is warming, nature is rapidly changing across the world and life as we know it is becoming increasingly unsteady.
South Africa Online ® tells the stories of those non-complicit life forms, such as animals, plants and marine life, whose very existence is threatened by the effects of fossil-fuel pollution, greenhouse gasses and natural cycles of global warming.
The website takes a closer look at when global warming awareness first surfaced, man’s catalyzation of climate change, and the first action taken against global warming.
South Africa is blessed with an abundance of wildlife from various ecosystems. As the environment around the animals change, due to due glob...
moreArctic sea ice has thinned by 40 percent during the late summer and early autumn months and the loss of sea ice is posing a dire threat to t...
moreThe seventies were about the rise of Black Consciousness and the death of Steve Biko; the Soweto riots; John Vorster and PW Botha; rural rem...
moreSince different parts of the planet enjoy different kinds of weather, how climate change manifests itself will be different in each region....
moreThere may be reason to believe that our interference with the atmosphere goes back thousands of years before industrialisation began....
moreThe cycles of the earth and its environment is in constant flux. Climate has changed more times than you can count on both hands. Species ha...
moreAn opposing argument to global warming maintains that the scientific community and environmental activists have bought into global warming b...
moreThe year 1981 was declared the warmest on record and the scientific community entered the 1980s by calling on governments to take action....
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