Our Burning Planet, Maverick News

Fierce fires can help save the veld from bush encroachment and extinction, says top UCT ecologist

by: Yves Vanderhaeghen

Maverick Life, Our Burning Planet

Searching for a female partner for the world’s ‘loneliest’ plant

by: Laura Cinti

South Africa, Our Burning Planet

Green shoots — five new forests spring up in Cape Town

by: Kristin Engel

Africa, South Africa, Our Burning Planet

Why a ‘fetish’ for forests might imperil conservation efforts

by: Fred Kockott and Savannah Burns

Newsdeck

Portugal on high alert for wildfires as temperatures soar

by: Reuters

Magazine, Maverick Life, Our Burning Planet

Discovering the forest wonders of Africa – and the threats they face

by: Robert Nasi

South Africa, Our Burning Planet

Deforestation in 2021 caused greenhouse gas increases equivalent to India’s annual fossil fuel emissions

by: Ethan van Diemen

South Africa, World, Our Burning Planet

Sir David Attenborough explores the roots of all life in new BBC series, The Green Planet

by: Onke Ngcuka

Magazine, Maverick Life, Our Burning Planet

Building back nature is more complicated than just planting trees

by: Catherine Del Monte

Magazine, Maverick Life

Quiver Trees – a succulent that would literally give an arm and a leg to survive

by: Chris Marais and Julienne du Toit

Magazine, Maverick Life, Our Burning Planet

Uncovering an ancient subterranean society: Are plants using underground fungal networks to ‘communicate’?

by: Catherine Del Monte

Magazine, Maverick Life, Our Burning Planet

The story of a forgotten forest fire stirs sparks of insight and provides hope in the Age of Covid

by: Ed Stoddard