Atop a dune, standing beneath a weather-beaten, palm-frond roofed lean-to, Mornay Delport scans Zavora Bay in southern Mozambique. A humpback whale cruises closer and closer to shore. She mills about ...

A South African court has blocked Shell’s seismic survey along the country’s eastern coastline, handing environmentalists a strong victory against the oil company. The survey aimed to examine a ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. When I read last December that Shell had gotten a court’s approval to commence seismic exploration for oil off the coast of South Africa, my first thought ...

A South African high court on Friday struck down an urgent application brought by environmentalists to stop oil major Royal Dutch Shell starting seismic surveys to explore for petroleum systems off ...

A South African high court on Tuesday blocked Shell from conducting seismic testing offshore from South Africa's pristine Wild Coast, in the latest ruling in a case seeking to prevent the oil major ...

Shell has been forced to halt a controversial offshore seismic survey after a South African court issued an interim indictment against the operation on environmental and constitutional grounds. The ...

A petition by environmentalists, Indigenous groups and fisheries organizations succeeded in temporarily halting oil giant Shell’s plans to conduct seismic surveys off South Africa’s Wild Coast to ...

Royal Dutch Shell faces a growing campaign against its plans to conduct a seismic survey of potential oil and gas reservoirs off South Africa’s rugged coastline. The standoff is the latest example of ...

The Eastern Cape High Court has granted Shell, Impact Africa and Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Gwede Mantashe leave to appeal against the 1 September judgment of the Makhanda High Court, ...

Local communities took legal action to block the project. Royal Dutch Shell Plc has been ordered by a South African court to temporarily halt an offshore seismic survey after local communities took ...