Team members of Hilton Malta participated in a joint activity with Nature Trust (Malta) in a clean-up at Pembroke Ranges. This was part of European Mobility Week and International Coastal Clean up Day. The event started with a short talk on ecology in...
With plans for eco-Gozo supposedly in place, a number of planning and enforcement cases are posing a litmus test for the green scheme. The convoluted nature of the cases, arising from the many ploys resorted to by some Gozitan developers, make it...
Around €3.8 million are available for Gozitans if they come up with the right projects for a funding scheme under the European Agriculture and Rural Development Fund’s Leader programme 2007-2013. Developing the potential of rural areas and improving...
Many today are familiar with the plight of bluefin tuna and marine turtle but few know about the diminishing population of the Mediterranean Red Coral species (Corallium rubrum). A recent international workshop on red coral held in Naples heard the...
In what can be considered a truly global event about a global issue, Friends of the Earth Malta and St James Cavalier hosted the Age of Stupid, a new epic from McLibel director Franny Armstrong. In a cinema filled to capacity, viewers at St James...
From tomorrow, about 150 experts from the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) will start their annual administrative meetings at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta. The weeklong event includes meetings of all the main...
Two-thirds of the world's major deltas, home to nearly half a billion people, are caught in the scissors of sinking land and rising seas, according to a study published recently. The new findings, based on satellite images, show that 85 per cent of the...
"Don't alarm people or they will switch off" is the staid and cautionary advice to environmental journalists - not easy to follow when faced with the many challenges ahead. At times of crisis we may choose to snatch at rays of sunshine. It really is...
Spanning the centre of continental Europe, the Alps play a crucial role in accumulating and supplying water to the continent. Recognised as the 'water towers of Europe', the mountains host most of the headwaters of the rivers Danube, Rhine, Po and...
Indian car maker Reva unveiled two electric cars at the Frankfurt motor show this week and announced the launch in Europe of one model in early 2010 as the buzz for electric vehicles grows louder. In its first major presence at the German show, Reva...
Usurpation of car parks
The cocoon in the new Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum in London. The new space includes two storeys of museum collections, featuring 20 million species of plants and insects. It opens to the public on Tuesday.
Europe risks dealing a critical blow to the chances of a credible global deal on climate change, due to be agreed in Copenhagen this December, Actionaid warned. A new 'blueprint' published by the European Commission suggests that Europe's politicians...
Another generation of young earthlings goes back to school next week or the week after. Only a few days are left of the long carefree summer holidays. It is also now only a few months before the world faces its 'last chance' to agree on effective...
The International Ocean Institute - Malta Operational Centre (IOI-MOC) at the University of Malta has launched a marine talent competition within the framework of the IOI-Kids Programme. The competition seeks to attract quality contributions of...
Green Dot Malta is sponsoring an new environmental journalism award at next year's edition of the Malta Journalism Awards. The award will be given to a journalist whose work is assessed as having most effectively communicated environmental issues to...
The sterling work of those responsible to keep beach concession operators in check is being undone every time permits are given for private parties to take place on beaches. Further to the desecration of San Blas beach that I reported in this column on...
As an eco-volunteer, apart from taking active part in some of the scientific boat surveys that investigate dolphin, whale, turtle, shark and ray, the Biological Conservation Research Foundation (Bicref) has allowed me to join in some of its marine...
This is the story of Nathan, Jimmy, Victor and Jesmar. The four men (not their real names) have developments on adjoining fields, once a single holding on fertile agricultural land outside Mosta. Reading the convoluted permit history conjures up a...
A Moroccan woman gathers red seaweed, known as agar, in the coastal town of Moulay Abdellah, Morocco. The red algae is the town's main industry, and due to the frenzied harvesting of this aquatic plant the ecological balance of the region is in danger.
The German government tabled plans to get a million electric cars zipping around the country by 2020, offering sweeteners to jumpstart national giants like BMW and Volkswagen into action. "It is the federal government's aim that by 2020, there will be...
The Cleaner Technology Centre is launching the fifth Environment Award for Industry with the aim of acknowledging the contribution of industry in favour of sustainable development. The aim of these awards is to give recognition to industries or...
External sensors and data logging equipment have been installed at the Neolithic site of Ġgantija in Gozo. Working closely with Heritage Malta conservationists, AIS Ltd's engineers and technicians set up sensors which measure temperature, relative...
The hype about local beaches obtaining coveted Blue Flag status is understandable from a tourism point of view but, in the case of Golden Bay, such a drive is misguided. On the same beach, a catering outlet lies right in the middle of sand dune...
Abi the lioness with her two 10-week-old Asiatic Lion cubs in their outside enclosure at London Zoo last Thursday. The two cubs are the first to be born at the zoo for over 10 years to their mother Abi who was the last cub to be born at the zoo in 1999.
Millions of sockeye salmon have disappeared mysteriously from a river on Canada's Pacific Coast that was once known as the world's most fertile spawning ground for sockeye. Up to 10.6 million bright-red sockeye salmon were expected to return to spawn...
A tiny island of fishermen is light years ahead of the rest of Pakistan, powering homes and businesses with wind turbines - protecting the environment and improving the quality of life. The government may lack the cash to harness hydro, wind and solar...
Having attended the national conference on the Malta Environment and Planning Authority reform held last week, I need to air a few concerns. One could not help but note that developers far outnumbered NGO representatives and environ-mentalists at the...
The United States could save about $600 billion in energy costs by 2020 if it hiked annual efficiency spending about fivefold, business consultants McKinsey and Co said in a report last Wednesday. Governments, businesses and the general public would...
An odd-looking bald songbird has been discovered in a rugged region of Laos, the first find of this kind in Asia for more than a century, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) said last Thursday. Scientists from the WCS and University of Melbourne,...
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