climate change

A collapsed bridge in Rhodes island after heavy rainfall, on December 1, 2024. Photo: Stringer/Eurokinissi/AFP

‘Envisioning Malta’s Four Climate Futures’ − a catalyst for change

Actionable steps towards a sustainable future

April 15, 2025| Lushano Myburgh and Jeanelle Arpa
People shelter from the rain under umbrellas as they walk across a bridge over the Biala River in Glucholazy, southern Poland, AFP file photo.

Europe saw hottest March ever, by significant margin

Conditions produced rainfall extremes across the continent that is warming faster than any other.

April 8, 2025| Times of Malta
Tens of thousands attempt the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe each year. Photo: Shutterstock.com

Maltese youths mostly concerned about migration, environment, security

Eurobarometer survey shows young people elsewhere in Europe are most worried about defence

April 4, 2025| James Cummings
People rest on a beach as dust and fog cover the horizon at Palaio Faliro suburb, on the Saronic Gulf coast, south of Athens, on March 15. Photo: AFP

Record high temperatures ahead of bout of snow: Greece's weather rollercoaster

Mercury soared to 31.4 degrees Celsius on Saturday

March 16, 2025| AFP
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gives a press conference after a "strategic dialogue" meeting with car manufacturers. Photo: Nicolas TUCAT / AFP.

EU proposes emission rule delay to spare carmakers from fines

Industry to be given more 'breathing space', Von der Leyen says

March 3, 2025| AFP
A solar cell farm in France. Photo: Shutterstock

Local industry welcomes EU Clean Industrial Deal but wants more islands focus

Malta Business Bureau says Commission plan is ambitious but does not acknowledge challenges

February 26, 2025| Times of Malta
File photo - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks at the Green Deal Summit 2023.

EU launches push to simplify its environmental rules

Maltese business organisation underlines particular needs of peripheral regions, islands

February 26, 2025| AFP
Debris lies in the river next to destroyed houses in Chiva, in the region of Valencia, eastern Spain, in the aftermath of catastrophic deadly floods on November 19, 2024. File photo: AFP

Climate change and human rights

As human existence itself is at stake, it is only reasonable to look at climate change from a human rights perspective

February 7, 2025| Joseph Zammit McKeon
Lack of water and rising temperatures: to cope with climate change, the mid-mountain forest (Vosges mountains in Natzwiller, north-eastern France) is serving as a 'laboratory' to build 'the forest of tomorrow'. File photo: AFP

January sets 'surprising' heat record: EU monitor

The period being lived through right now is likely the warmest the Earth has been for the last 125,000 years

February 6, 2025| AFP
South Korean climate activist Lee So-yeon, who has not bought any new clothes for the past six years and now has a wardrobe consisting of used items that she received from friends and family. Photos: Anthony Wallace/AFP

No new clothes: S. Korean climate activist targets hyperconsumption

The app Lucky Sweater provides a platform for users to trade items from their closets with each other

February 5, 2025| AFP
The report places Malta 19th globally for drinking water. Photo: Matthew Mirabelli

Malta's tap water ranks among 20 best in the world

2024 Environmental Performance Index places Malta in 19th position globally... down from top 10

February 3, 2025| Fiona Galea Debono
Malta has encountered sweltering heatwaves in recent years. File photo: Matthew Mirabelli.

Heat deaths in Malta could triple if world fails on climate change - study

Malta was singled out as the European country that could be most affected

January 28, 2025| James Cummings
Demonstrators blocked a highway, delaying traffic and emergency services. Photo: AFP

Hundreds of climate activists detained after blocking Dutch highway for hours

Led by Extinction Rebellion, protesters defy police instructions to remain in city centre

January 11, 2025| AFP
Since 2015, Malta has had a Climate Action Act that makes climate protection legally binding. Photo: Shutterstock

Malta drops five places in climate change performance index

Local experts pan Malta's 'lack of ambition' on climate policy

January 10, 2025| Matthew Bonanno
A beach house is engulfed in flames as the Palisades Fire burns along Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California. Photo: AFP

Watch: Apocalyptic scenes in California - 'We have lost everything'

Despair as violent fire reduces houses to ashes, claims five lives

January 9, 2025| AFP
Wied Inċita in Attard. Photo: DOI

Growth, responsibility and the year ahead

Much remains to be done, but we have made tangible progress in the past year

January 5, 2025| Miriam Dalli
Many tugboat operators are small to medium enterprises and Attard argued that they should not be subject to unnecessary administrative burdens. Photo: Jonathan Borg

Tugboats to be exempt from pollution rules aimed at cargo vessels

Labour MEP Daniel Attard previously raised the issue with the European Commission

January 3, 2025| Times of Malta
The weather will be ideal for outdoor celebrations to welcome 2025, the MIA Met Office said.

New Year's eve weather 'ideal for outdoor celebrations' - Met Office

The temperature will be higher than the norm

December 30, 2024| Times of Malta
People queue to get on a boat heading for The Comoros in the town of Dzaoudzi, on the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on December 28, 2024. The most devastating cyclone to hit Mayotte in 90 years caused colossal damage.

Climate change brought extreme weather, heat in 2024: UN

The outgoing year is set to be the warmest ever recorded

December 30, 2024| AFP
Heavy tidal waves in Viña del Mar, Chile on Saturday. The Chilean National Disaster Prevention and Response Service issued a preventive early warning due to the development of abnormal waves on the continental coastal edge of the country.

One dead in Ecuador, Peru ports closed amid massive waves 

Jetties and public squares were submerged in some parts of Peru

December 29, 2024| AFP
Activists with banners and flags hold a gathering to demand that rich countries help developing nations tackle global warming, during COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Photo: AFP

No half-measures over climate change

On climate change it is no longer enough to participate passively in global negotiations or publish documents reiterating the same points; Malta needs to lead by example

December 23, 2024| Nigel Caruana, Yacopo Baldacchino, David Debattista, Cara Borg Aquilina, Emma de Gabriele, Chloë Cauchi, Chiara Vassallo and Sandrine Borg
PN spokespeople Ryan Callus, Mark Anthony Sammut and Eve Borg Bonello. Photo: Partit Nazzjonalista

PN slams government for diverting EU bus funds to electric private cars

'By encouraging the use of private cars, the government will make the traffic situation worse'

December 9, 2024| Times of Malta
The lake has been designated as a Special Area of Conservation. Photo: Shutterstock.com

Watch: Ireland's Lough Corrib (ARTE)

It covers 176 km² and lies mostly in County Galway

December 9, 2024| ARTE
Activists hold a silent protest inside the COP29 venue to demand that rich nations provide climate finance to developing countries, during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku. Photo: AFP

COP29: was it a joke?

Agreement whereby developed countries will pay developing countries ‘at least’ $300 billion a year by 2035

December 7, 2024| Alfred Baldacchino
The event's poster

Interactive workshop to tackle climate change

Participants will take part in the scientific game Climate Fresk

December 6, 2024| Times of Malta
Trafffic Photo:Matthew Mirabelli

Malta the EU laggard in 2023 greenhouse gas emissions

Mounting challenges in cutting emissions as levels surge 31% since 2005, far exceeding EU targets

December 5, 2024| Emma Borg
The root cause of the problem is emissions. Photo: Shutterstock.com

COP29 - A step forward but the fight is still on

The $300 billion agreement at COP29 is a lifeline but the lack of global consensus on vital mitigation targets for emissions is frustrating

December 3, 2024| Miriam Dalli and Abigail Cutajar
A boy cools himself off at a tube-well near a field amid rising temperature in New Delhi. Photo: Shutterstock.com

Watch: India: Life at 50 degrees (ARTE)

Since May 2024, a severe and long heatwave impacted the country

December 2, 2024| ARTE
Activists with banners and flags hold a gathering to demand that rich countries help developing nations tackle global warming, during the UN Climate Change Conference. Photo: AFP

What is the $300 billion climate deal all about?

The deal was reached at UN climate talks in Azerbaijan

November 24, 2024| AFP
Photo of Minister Miriam Dalli: MEER

Malta satisfied with climate change agreement, wants better mitigation measures

Miriam Dalli says many countries continue to rely on coal and oil

November 24, 2024| Times of Malta