CAPE TOWN / Bloomberg South Africa is considering merging two state-owned airlines and selling off a stake in the enlarged carrier to private investors, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said. The government will “explore the possibility of merging South African Airways (SAA) and SA Express, under a strengthened board, with a view to engaging with a potential minority equity partner,” Gordhan said …

Bloomberg On the southeast coast of Australia, a A$5.7 billion ($4.1 billion) processing plant to turn the ocean into a source of drinking water has sat idle since it was built in 2012. That could change soon. The state of Victoria will decide by April whether to switch it on, sucking water from the Bass Strait through an underground tunnel …

Erika Lindholm In our current economic system — the linear economic system — we extract resources from our planet at an ever-increasing pace, and turn them into a product that we mostly dispose after use. From the perspective of an individual or organization, that seems efficient. However, zooming out to a global level shows how unsustainable this approach is. The …