Countering the health effects of peat fires

Countering the health effects of peat fires

From social media–based applications to face masks, a range of efforts are being instituted to tackle the causes and effects of toxic haze in Indonesia For the past 360 million years, waterlogged land areas of our planet have been covered with the dense black decay of...
WOF firefighters to assist with Nirox burn

WOF firefighters to assist with Nirox burn

On 20 May 2017, Hannelie Coetzee will direct the second Art/Science #FireGrazer performance at the NIROX Sculpture Park, in partnership with the University of the Witwatersrand scientists, Sally Archibald (Ecologist) and James Harrison (Entomologist), Working on Fire...
Yellow Cards ensure compliance on the fire line

Yellow Cards ensure compliance on the fire line

Even though fire is a very valuable resource – used for cooking, creating heat, clearing land for farming and even fighting fire – it has the potential to cause great harm. It is therefore vitally important that Working on Fire’s (WOF) brave men and women, who work...