What if plants could speak when they were thirsty? Agriculture, in essence, is a dialog among crops, soil and climate. Yet drought, the most insidious stressor, remains largely silent until its damage ...

An eight-year-old and 10-year-old were killed and 17 people injured in an attack at a Catholic school Mass on Wednesday.

I’m writing this column sitting in my house on the Western Cape, looking out to sea, watching the whales bobbing ...