This edition is built around that idea. We look at what sub-Saharan Africa has lost – nearly a quarter of its biodiversity – and at what can still be saved. We visit the South African Weather Service’s Global Atmosphere Watch station, a quietly extraordinary listening post where scientists track the very air we breathe for signs of what is coming. We explore how plastic waste is being reimagined as fuel and raw material, how dry anaerobic digestion is turning organic waste into something useful, and how irrigation science could be a lifeline for the country’s smallholder farmers. We also look outward. Our Featured articles take you from the forests of the Cape – where leopards have adapted so successfully to their environment that they are now genetically unique – to the cutting edge of HIV vaccine research and the world-first quantum science breakthroughs being made on South African soil. Read full pdf text and individual articles
