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Nature conservation requires more dynamic approach to weather impacts of climate change

Nature conservation requires more dynamic approach to weather impacts of climate change

In a hard-hitting new paper leading ecologists and climate change specialists argue that current nature conservation practices are not sufficiently flexible...

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British Ecological Society award for SA climate change researcher

British Ecological Society award for SA climate change researcher

​The British Ecological Society's Marsh award for climate change research has been awarded to Professor Wendy Foden, a world-leading researcher in climate...

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Teaching and Field excursions

Teaching and Field excursions

​Teaching and Field trips

The BSc Earth Sciences is based on a balance of class room and field work teaching. It includes 52 days of fieldwork deepening the...
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Climate change research and action urgently needed, says GAUC

Climate change research and action urgently needed, says GAUC

​Calls were made for climate change research, advocacy and action to be taken at the first COP25 conference hosted this week by the Global Alliance of...

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Curriculum for Climate Change

Curriculum for Climate Change

Dr Melanie Skead, Director of CTL, participated as local expert in the development of a Master's degree on climate change and recently shared some of the good...

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Shocking rate of plant extinctions in South Africa

Shocking rate of plant extinctions in South Africa

New research has confirmed the extinction of 79 plants in South Africa's three biodiversity hotspots – namely the Cape Floristic Region, the Succulent Karoo...

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Humboldt Research Award to Prof Guy Midgley

Humboldt Research Award to Prof Guy Midgley

Prof Guy Midgley, a leading expert in the field of biodiversity and global change science at Stellenbosch University, has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt...

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The UN and Africa: Progress towards achieving the SDGs

The UN and Africa: Progress towards achieving the SDGs

Wednesday to Friday, June 19-21, 2019 

Stellenbosch University | South AfricaIn 2017, UNSG Antonio Guterres and African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki...
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Biodiversity suffers as climate warms

Biodiversity suffers as climate warms

​ A simplified ecological landscape – with significant biodiversity loss – might be the outcome if a global temperature increase cannot be restricted to 1.5°C...

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