Past Entries

The Beauty of Nature

submitted by Our Lady Immaculate School : Kyr Cassar  for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): website
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: YREstayshome

When nature is allowed to flourish without much human intervention. A biological symbiosis :)



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We care, do you?

submitted by Our Lady Immaculate School : Jeanette Micallef  for 15-18
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): website
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Commended

A local protest against cutting and killing trees to widen roads which is a short term solution to the current traffic problem with harmful impact on our wellbeing; especially considering the air pollution problem in Malta and the ever increasing number of vehicles on a daily basis.



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The orange bloom

submitted by Our Lady Immaculate School : Emma Brownrigg Fenech  for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): website
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Finalist, Honorable Mention, YREstayshome

Time spent amongst flowers is never time wasted. The importance of green spaces in the urbanised areas, especially during this current situation of COVID-19, which helps in the overall wellbeing of humans.



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How can we live a daily life comfortably whilst caring for the environment?

submitted by Our Lady Immaculate : Emily Pace Delicata  for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): school magazine, school media, website
filed under Articles
awarded: Commended

WRITTEN BY EMILY PACE DELICATA FORM 4 – OUR LADY IMMACULATE SCHOOL The evidence shows that, thanks to human activity, global temperatures are rising at a level which isn’t sustainable for the environment to be able to survive. So what can we actually do? How can we make a difference when it seems like everything has a bad impact on the climate?



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COVID-19 IMPACT!

submitted by lija Balzan Iklin : Blaec Camilleri  for 7-10
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): website
filed under Articles
awarded: YREstayshome

The positive and negative effects of COVID-19 on humanity and the natural environment. https://www.facebook.com/search/posts/?q=blaec%20camilleri&epa=SEARCH_BOX



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Everything will be Ok !

submitted by lija Balzan Iklin : Matthey Portelli  for 7-10
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): school media, website
filed under Articles
awarded: YREstayshome

At the time of the Corona Virus…The positive and negative aspects on human life, connection and the environment



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A new species of palm tree?

submitted by St. Augustine College : Benjamin Borg  for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): newspaper, school magazine, school media
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Commended, Finalist, Honorable Mention

Rising over the Maltese skyline is a new species of palm tree hovering above buildings and people. Is this is an endemic species or a pandemic of construction fever?



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The Fan without a Ceiling

submitted by St. Augustine College : Benjamin Borg  for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): newspaper, school magazine, school media
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Participation

Demolition of buildings creates waste, most of which should be separated and recycled. Possibly this ceiling fan could have also been reused instead of thrown away never to be used again.



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Treating farmland as an environmental resource

submitted by St. Augustine College : Christopher Portelli, Gabriel Pullicino  for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): newspaper, school magazine, school media
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Commended

Farmland should not be protected only for its monetary value but because it deserves to be protected, governments should legislate in favour of the environment. Water shortages, extreme weather events and high temperatures, could make living very difficult if not impossible. Currently, in Malta, we are experiencing one of the longest draughts which is wreaking havoc in fields, Mr Malcom Borg, head of lobby group Għaqda Bdiewa Attivi, said that the public needed to understand that fields provide food as many people think of fields only when they are threatened of being destroyed.



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The Borage plant

submitted by St. Augustine College : Christopher Portelli, Gabriel Pullicino  for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): newspaper, school magazine, school media
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Commended, Honorable Mention

The Borage plant, Borago officinalis, is also known as Fidloqqom in Maltese is an indigenous plant that adapts to any condition and grows in garigues and roadsides especially in Buskett, Dingli and most valleys in Malta. It’s a favourite plant for bees and is a grassy annual plant with hairy stems and triangular, blue leaves. It is also grown in gardens as its leaves are edible, it’s a nutritious plant that is used in salads and it is often used as a medicinal herb mainly for gastrointestinal, respiratory and circulatory disorders.



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