The World Health Organization’s cancer research agency has classified the herbicide atrazine as “probably carcinogenic to humans.”

Postnatal pesticide exposure and its impact on executive functioning (EF) in children and adolescents remains underexplored, particularly in African a…

Ian Russell says watchdog lacks ‘urgency’ and is not willing to use its powers ‘to the extent required’ The father of Molly Russell, a British teenager who killed herself after viewing harmful online content, has called for a change in leadership at the UK’s communications watchdog after losing faith in its ability to make the internet safer for children. Ian Russell, whose 14 year-old daughter took her own life in 2017, said Ofcom had “repeatedly” demonstrated that it does not grasp the urgency of keeping under-18s safe online and was failing to implement new digital laws forcefully. Continue reading...

Droughts and heatwaves causing water in some areas to reach 41C, killing fish and endangered dolphins, say researchers

Extreme wind speeds critical for wind turbine design have increased across 63% of global coasts. Over half of offshore wind farms in Asia and Europe are in areas with increasing extreme winds, urging adaptive infrastructure under climate change.

FDA analysis has determined that certain dietary supplements labeled as tejocote (Crataegus mexicana) root are adulterated because they were tested and found to be substituted withyellow oleander (Cas...

Postnatal pesticide exposure and its association with child and adolescent behavioural outcomes remain underexplored in rural agricultural settings, p…

Purpose Recent studies show that glioblastoma (GBM) is more sensitive to temozolomide (TMZ) in the morning. In cells, inhibiting O6-Methylguanine-DNA-Methyltransferase (MGMT) abolished time-dependent ...

This meta-analysis examines the effects of colours and levels of artificial light at night (ALAN) on the physiology and behaviour of organisms across diverse species and functional groups. Broad-spec....

Pretoria's Wim van den Heever has captured the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year award with a haunting image from Namibia's ghost town, Kolmanskop.

FDA is aware of serious complications reported with certain uses of radiofrequency microneedling devices; asks for reports of injuries related these devices

Lapalala Wilderness Nature Reserve is only the second Dark Sky Park in Africa

UCT to host first-ever THE World Academic Summit in Africa.

From disorienting elephants and sea turtles to causing sleep disorders and hypertension in humans, these pervasive pollutants are silently undermining climate resilience and urban sustainability...

mHealth journalInterviews with Outstanding Authors (2025) Leszczynski

The agency’s administrator, Lee Zeldin, says he wants to “get out of the way” and stop “gumming up the works” so that fast-track construction of the massive computing facilities will “make America the...

Sharks and rays play pivotal ecological roles in marine ecosystems, and globally, 32.6 % of shark, ray and chimera species are considered to be threat…

Gen Z tech activist Emma Lembke is one of a growing number of young adults leading a movement to take back control of their attention — by logging off.

Seeing the World through an Environmental Lens

IntroductionMilitary personnel frequently operate in close proximity to electromagnetic (EM) sources such as vehicular communication antennas. Despite this o...