This week's Science in Action (available on demand) leads with Cyclone #Freddy - its 7,500km journey across the Indian Ocean, impacts on Madagascar and southern Africa and what it bodes in a warming world. With @FaEngelbrecht from @WitsUniversity https://t.co/XYugJMeDWQ
Like coronavirus-19 disease (COVID-19), the climate change crisis is expected to amplify health system’s weaknesses & inequalities. Mental health, a key component of health, will be impacted. https://t.co/eWInqpg2nv
Download for FFREE the #WJCM (https://t.co/DUhaFFQ2Dr)
#COP27
Had a wonderful time at the #SASAS2022 conference! Great catching up with climate scientists from across the country. Well done @FaEngelbrecht and the team from @WitsGCI for organizing!
Please remember to register for the SASAS Conference 2022! The final deadline to submit abstracts is Monday, 12 September 2022. Click here for more https://t.co/fpQZpK6OkT
As part of Wits University’s focus on the intersection of climate change, sustainability & inequality, the first presentation in a seminar series was launched. Keynote by Professor Achille Mbembe: Notes on planetary habitability.
Read: https://t.co/yXeOlc2Fzf
#Wits100#Climate
Please remember to register for the SASAS Conference 2022! The deadline to submit abstracts is next Monday, 22 August 2022. Click here for more https://t.co/gShplBsnxz
The office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality at Wits will be hosting the second seminar on planetary health on the 11th of August at 9am!
Please register online here: https://t.co/OsFkQP0hB3
#WitsForGood#Wits100#ClimateChange
If you missed @WitsGCI's Prof @FaEngelbrecht's talk on regional tipping points at the Bonn Climate Change Conference, you can catch the recording below. Jump to 23 minutes for his talk.
https://t.co/WJQUxFnlkw
Our rivers need to breathe. Witsies were at work with communities along the Kaalspruit River in Thembisa. The river is a tributary to the troubled Hennops river. Treating the problem upstream is important to relieve Hennops.
#WitsForGood#SaveOurRivers#MandelaMonth#MandelaDay
Our first official workshop! We’re in Mzimba talking to the chiefs and community members about their desirable futures, using the newly recognized by @IPBES#NatureFuturesFramework
Insights include the need to go back to the past to recover a future interrupted by colonialism
SAEON wishes to congratulate our MD, Dr. Mary Jane Bopape as one of the Humanitarian Awards Global 2022 Honorary Awardees. We are proud of Dr. Mary Jane Bopape's contributions in meteorology as part of #CR4D@AfricanClimate with CHPC @CSIR, @SAWeatherServic & @dsigovza #SADC-CI