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Assessing South Africa’s coastal climate change risk

Author: Lück-Vogel, Melanie Date: Oct 2019 In South Africa, about 40% of the people are living within 60km of the Oceans' coasts, and approximately 60% of the South African economy depends on coastal natural resources and trade infrastructure such as ports. These figures highlight the ... Read more
Climate change and agriculture

Author: Todorovic, M ; Jovanovic, Nebojsa Date: Apr 2020 Weather represents day-to-day atmospheric condition (e.g. air temperature, pressure, humidity, precipitation, sunshine hours, cloud cover, wind direction and speed, etc.) over a short term at a given place and time. Climate is defined as the ... Read more
Ecobuilding and job creation

Author: Kolev, M Date: Feb 2009 The current worldwide economic crisis needs strong global leaders who are able to breath new life into the economy in a way that will focus on the need to create jobs as well as stabilise the climate change, increase food production using ... Read more
The hydrogen economy- A debate on the merits

Author: Van Vuuren, DS Date: Jan 2007 In a hydrogen economy, hydrogen is expansively being used as a means to store, distribute, and convert energy into other useful forms. Hydrogen is expensive, an efficient energy carrier, is dangerous and has low energy density. Of concern ... Read more
Mine water pollution - acid mine decant, effluent and treatment: a consideration of key emerging issues that may impact the State of the Environment

Author: Oelofse, Suzanna HH Date: 2009 Acid Mine Discharge (AMD) is a contaminated waste generated out of the mining activities both during and after the operation period. AMD has adverse impact on the socio-economic conditions of the people residing in and around mining site. It ... Read more
Optimum diameter of a circulating fluidised bed combustor with negative wall heat flux

Author: Baloyi, J ; Bello-Ochende, T ; Meyer, JP Date: Jul 2015 The focus of the world is the reduction of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, which contribute to the global warming currently experienced. Since most of the carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere is from fossil fuel combustion, ... Read more
Projected changes in tropical cyclones over the South West Indian Ocean under different extents of global

Author: Muthige, Mavhungu S ; Malherbe, Johan ; Engelbrecht, Francois A ; Grab, S ; Beraki, Asmerom F ; Maisha, Thizwilondi R ; Van der Merwe, Jacobus H Date: Apr 2018 The Paris Agreement achieved in December 2015 established that the signatory countries should pursue to hold the increase in global average temperature to below 2°C relative to the preindustrial period and to strive to limit the temperature ... Read more
Southern ocean carbon and heat impact on climate

Author: Sallée, JB ; Abrahamsen, EP ; Allaigre, C ; Brearley, JA ; De Lavergne, C ; Ten Doeschate, AMM ; Droste, ES ; Monteiro, PMS ; Nicholson, Sarah-Anne ; The SO-CHI Consortium untranslated Date: May 2023 The Southern Ocean greatly contributes to the regulation of the global climate by controlling important heat and carbon exchanges between the atmosphere and the ocean. Rates of climate change on decadal timescales are therefore impacted by ... Read more
Steady state CFD modelling of carbon dioxide release and methananogenesis in coal heaps

Author: Siyakatshana, Njabulo ; Ubbink, O ; Kekana, J ; Wessels, G Date: Jan 2011 The Kyoto Protocol and its related instruments have increased awareness of the phenomenon of global warming. The two main so-called greenhouse gases deemed to cause this effect have been identified as CO2 and CH4. Other greenhouse gases include ... Read more
Transforming South Africa’s biodiversity into diesel

Author: Maharajh, Dheepak M ; Harilal, A Date: 31 Aug 2010 The continuous use of fossil fuels is environmentally harmful and unsustainable. Concerns about energy supply, environmental pollution and global warming have triggered the worldwide search for sources of environmentally friendly renewable ... Read more
Trends in the Indian Ocean Climatology due to anthropogenic induced global warming

Author: Meyer, AA ; Weerts, Steven P Date: Sep 2009 In this invited paper presented to the South Western Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission's fouth session, the trends in South Western Indian Ocean climatology have been evaluated for the 21st century. The scientific information presented in the ... Read more
Vertical convergence of turbulent and double-diffusive heat flux drives warming and erosion of Antarctic Winter Water in summer

Author: Giddy, IS ; Fer, I ; Swart, S ; Nicholson, Sarah-Anne Date: May 2023 The seasonal warming of Antarctic Winter Water (WW) is a key process that occurs along the path of deep water transformation to intermediate waters. These intermediate waters then enter the upper branch of the circumpolar overturning circulation. ... Read more
What are green materials and technologies?

Author: Van Wyk, Llewellyn V Date: Oct 2014 The potential impact of climate change and global warming is without doubt one of the most life-threatening challenges that face humanity. Central to this challenge is our dependence on fossil fuels as the primary source of energy- the major ... Read more

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