Faculty of Science

Table Mountain Group Aquifer drill sites threaten rare plant species protected by international treaties and the City should exercise due caution when abstracting water, says biologist Associate Professor Adam West from the Department

Professor Mark New, Director of the African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) in the Faculty of Science at UCT, has just been named as the 2018 recipient of the Piers Sellers Prize for a world leading contribution to solution f

Lead bullet fragments in carcasses left by hunters are poisoning endangered African vultures, a new study, recently published in Science of the Total Environment, has found. Dr Arjun Amar, from the FitzPatrick Institute of Afr

Professor Maano Ramutsindela, a Human geographer from the Department of Environmental & Geographical Science, recently delivered his inaugural lecture on transfrontier/ peace parks, entitled, "Remapping Africa through peace pa

Dr Jayne Wilkins, from the Department of Archaeology at UCT led the excavations and was part of a team of scientists, including UCT undergraduate and postgraduate students, who collected sediment samples that yielded cryptotephra 

A new study, conducted byy Professor Peter Ryan, from the FitzPatrick Institute, as lead author, reveals that small plastic fragments polluting our oceans derive from local sources.  

Associate Professor Adam West, from the Department of Biological Sciences at UCT is part of a group of prominent scientists who are warning the City of Cape Town that they will compromise critical ecological infrastructure on which the

The intramuscular injectable contraceptive depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, or DMPA, may raise the risk for HIV infection by 40% in women, according to research published recently in Endocrine Reviews. Research indicates alternativ

Dr Kevin Winter from UCT’s Future Water Institute and the Department of Environmental & Geological Science, draws attention to the five signs of progress that could push Day Zero further out and give the City of Cape Town mor

Dr Christen Shelton and Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan, from the Department of Bilogical Sciences at UCT have discovered an unusual bone tissue pattern that was suspected to be osteomyelitis in the femur of an o