Friends of the Earth Malta (FoEM) is rebranding its “Malta Farm Map”, an initiative aiming to promote and support local farmers to sell their local fruits and vegetables directly to you. As part of our mission to preserve permanently local farmland and communicate with the public about the importance of eating local, FoEM set up...
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New climate report by IPCC shows accelerating impacts
The UN’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently published the sixth assessment report on the impacts, adaptation and vulnerability of climate change. It’s the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding,...
Scrap the Proposed Plan For Miniature Airstrip in Wied Znuber
Birżebbuġa residents, farmers and people keen on protecting Wied Żnuber are shocked at plans announced on February 12 for a miniature airstrip by the valley and the cliffs of the area. Plans for the airstrip were announced at the signing of an agreement between the government agency INDIS and an airplane model association. The project...
Planning Authority and Portelli threaten Sannat
Joint Press Statement 28.02.2022 An application (PA/02087/21) which will add 73 apartments to create a monstrous 125-unit complex in Sannat will be heard for the second time by the Planning Commission on 1 March at noon, following the peculiar and unjustified decision to request review of the application by the Executive Council. Twelve organisations are...