📢🌍Delegations from seven communities in #Namakwaland & #Richtersveld handed over affidavits & reports to representatives of 🏦Min of Land Reform & Rural Development, Mzwanele Nyhontso.
#RighttoSayNO! #FPIC #Land

PHOTO ESSAY Wind-blown sand scouring life off a Southern African landscape A nasty wind rips across Cornell’s Kop one afternoon in October 2024, driving professor emeritus Timm Hoffman and his team to abandon the hilly study site a few clicks west of |Ai-|Ais Richtersveld Tr...

A #photoessay from #Richtersveld #southafrica

#quivertree #treealoe #climatecrisis #ClimateAction @coveringclimatenow.org #the89percent #conservation #desertification @antonharber.bsky.social @henrynxumalofund.bsky.social #storyark #storyarkdiaries #journalism
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#SouthAfrica #Richtersveld , sometimes as dry as a dessert but a paradise of colour after the rain.
#ExtremeFrontiers
#Flowers
#Flora
#Landscape
#Photography

Blowout — Story Ark

A new photo essay from #StoryArk. This one considers the role of wind in the advancing dust bowl conditions of the #Richtersveld #climatecrisis #storytelling @coveringclimatenow.org #journalism #desertification #storyarkdiaries #vanlife #catsofbluesky
www.storyark.co.za/blowout

Tending the Dead — Story Ark

When words fail.
#storyark's first #photoessay is live.
#richtersveld #QuiverTreeForest #extremeweather #climatecrisis #Conservation #storyarkdiaries #journalism www.storyark.co.za/dead

Karoo Dust Bowl (Part III): Sacrifice zone in the Richtersveld The recent years-long drought may have tipped parts of the Northern Cape towards an irreversible dust bowl, following decades of heavy grazing and mining. Farming remains the most viable livelihood. B...

We've long been in what my friend and colleague Dr Guy Preston called a "lethal cocktail" of environmental and social change drivers. Follow inimitable South African investigative journalist @leoniejoubert.bsky.social on tipping points in the #Richtersveld

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Karoo Dust Bowl (Part III): Sacrifice zone in the Richtersveld The recent years-long drought may have tipped parts of the Northern Cape towards an irreversible dust bowl, following decades of heavy grazing and mining. Farming remains the most viable livelihood. B...

#Karoo Dust Bowl — drought-battered #Richtersveld #farmers fear destructive creep of #mining.
#desertification #climatecrisis

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...