Latest Entries

Admiring nature

submitted by Xewkija Primary : Rosa Marie Borg  for 7-10
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): school media
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Participation

Flowers are happiness.

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What’s better for our health?

submitted by Xewkija : Yoana Attard  for 7-10
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): school media
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Participation

Next tine you need to travel from one place to another, consider going on foot instead of using a car. While traveling on foot is good for our health and wellbeing it is also beneficial for the environment.

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Agents of Change

submitted by Gozo College Middle School : Elena Attard, Gilbert Scicluna, Martha Sultana, Mattea Zammit  for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): other, school noticeboard, school magazine, school media, website
filed under Articles
awarded: Commended

YRE students from Gozo College Middle School report on the Climate Change and Life on Land summit which was held virtually on 10th December 2021. They give a brief overview about their active participation during the summit and beyond, explaining how they are agents of change.

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The Climate is changing, so should we!

submitted by Gozo College Middle School : Elly Cutajar  for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): radio, school media, website
filed under Reporting video Video Clips
awarded: Best Entry

Young Reporter for the Environment, Elly Cutajar, highlights the importance of using alternative modes of transport to help stop climate change.    

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Water Crisis

submitted by Gozo College Middle School : Eco-schools Committee  for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): newspaper, school magazine, school media, website
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Finalist

Climate change is disrupting weather patterns leading to unreliable rainfall, aggravating water scarcity and easier contamination of remaining fresh water supplies. Such impacts can drastically affect the quantity and quality of water that all living things need to survive especially for countries like Malta. What previously were all year-round water holes, sought by tired migrating birds, are now drying up. The Maltese Islands are dependent on a constant rainfall which feeds the water table and lack in consistency is resulting in less water seeping through the rocks. According to the Maltese Islands Weather website, ‘rain over the course of February 2022 was very scarce. In fact, it was among the driest ever’.

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