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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
International recognition for South African conservation biologist
Prof Wendy Foden is the second South African conservation scientist to receive the George Rabb Award for Conservation Innovation from the Species Survival...
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...
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...
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...
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...