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Water’s Impact on Life

submitted by Giovanni Curmi Naxxar Higher Secondary School Malta : John Charles Fenech  for 15-18
dissemination(s): newspaper, radio, school magazine, school media
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This image shows a micro environment within a valley watercourse in Chadwick lakes. The irony is that not far from were this image was taken, eutrophicated areas could be found. This image shows just a fragment of what there actually is in the zone. Freshwater all over the world is becoming contaminated and its purity is becoming lost. In the Maltese Islands this is occurring more than ever especially due to the fact that the islands already have a scarce amount of fresh water. The contamination of ground water is leading to the destruction of many ecological zones along with the species which live within them. If nothing is done about this, not even a macro image like this one would be able to be taken.



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The Beauty of The Fishing Village of Marsaxlokk

submitted by Giovanni Curmi Naxxar Higher Secondary School : Rebecca Schembri  for 15-18
dissemination(s): newspaper, radio, school magazine, school media
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A touristic village – Marsaxlokk – beautiful! Not after all the rubbish that is thrown / blown into the sea every week! Fishing for fish? Easier catch rubbish rather than fish. How long it takes for rubbish to disintegrate in the sea? Glass bottle – 2000years; paper – 3 months; matches – 6 months; cigarettes – from 1 to 5 years; plastic bags – from 10 to 20 years; nylon from 30 to 40 years; tins – 500years!



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Competing with the Prickly Pear

submitted by Giovanni Curmi Naxxar Higher Secondary School : Luke Ciantar  for 15-18
dissemination(s): newspaper, radio, school magazine, school media
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The prickly pear has been the tough plant that gave protection to the farmer’s fields. It has provided fodder to so many animals. It also supplied man with medicinal extracts for his health. What is man giving it in return? Garbage bags? Cans? Glass waste? Would tourists that visit our islands still take pictures of the beautiful countryside? Would man still take medicinal extracts for his health with all this pollution and rubbish in these pristine places?



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Suffocating Living Things

submitted by Giovanni Curmi Naxxar Higher Secondary School : Mariel Bartolo  for 15-18
dissemination(s): newspaper, radio, school magazine, school media
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Help us! ! ! ! We are drowning ! ! ! ! We are suffocating ! ! ! ! We used to be the breath of the humans and animals, and now we are begging for breath. We used to grow and give oxygen. No one took care of us. We grew and flourished and gave life to lifeless land. We decorated with flowers and invited bees. And now we struggle to pop our heads from under these motionless, lifeless things that bury us. When will they go away? Not even the decomposers can help this time. Are we all going to die? Then who will supply oxygen for life? Will everthing be non-living?



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Iż-Żibel ta’ Darek Jiġbruh Minn Wara Biebek

submitted by Giovanni Curmi Naxxar Higher Secondary School : Mariel Bartolo  for 15-18
dissemination(s): newspaper, radio, school magazine, school media
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Lill-Garni tal-Pipi, lill-Hannewija, lill-Ferla, lill-Haxixa Ingliza, lil min jaf kemm tant organizmi, ma jimpurtax jekk nidfnu, nghattu, neqirdu. M’hawnx bizzejjed fejn narmu? M’hawnx bizzejjed min jigbrilna z-zibel minn wara l-bieb tad-dar? M’hawnx bizzejjed edukazzjoni? Huwa tant komdu li niehdu iz-zibel taghna u inwaddbuh f’xi art mimlija hajja? X’sodisfazzjon hemm billi tara iz-zibel ta’ daharek gol-ambjent li setghu gawdew uliedek?



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Watching Our Nature on TV

submitted by Giovanni Curmi Naxxar Higher Secondary School : Mariel Bartolo  for 15-18
dissemination(s): newspaper, radio, school magazine, school media
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If people continue throwing their garbage and useless things in the countryside, we will only be able to see it on television. The Maltese islands are already overpopulated. The cars are much more than could be. The buildings eat away from the wilderness. Only few green areas remain. If people continue throwing away all their garbage in the little wilderness we have, our children will have to understand what we once meant by countryside, by seeing it only on television!



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Rubbish on cliffs

submitted by St. Margaret College Boys Secondary Verdala : Thomas Grimant  for 15-18
dissemination(s): newspaper
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On one of my Sunday afternoon walks reaching Fort Delimara in Marsaxlokk, I saw lots of rubbish and waste at the end of Delimara point. Rubbish, consisting mostly of household waste is strewn over the cliff face of one of the most beautiful points of our Maltese islands creating a potentially toxic problem. By heavy wind and rain contaminants could leak into the nearby sea harming our local ecosystems. Few people realize that cliff or coastal waste could end up falling into the sea and that some contaminated waste could find its way into our marine environment. Pollutants like heavy metals, pesticides and other chemicals could make their way into the marine food chain and perhaps end up being consumed by people. On contacting the local council I was told that withstanding their regular clean ups people keep on throwing rubbish so I recommended more law enforcement safeguarding Delimara point.



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My Story (A Bath)

submitted by Giovanni Curmi Naxxar Higher Secondary School : Mariel Bartolo  for 15-18
dissemination(s): newspaper, radio, school magazine, school media
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I used to live in a high rise block of apartments, where many families lived on top of each other, and side by side each other. I could hear their talks, laughs, cries and expressions. I could smell all the emissions from the large amounts of cars that used to drive past my residence. I could see the smog, on most of the mornings. I could feel the soap that used to run down my drains, smell the cigarettes that my owners smoked, hear all the noises all day long. All of a sudden I found myself in this bliss . . . . . where I can hear silence . . . . I can hear the birds, the wind, the crawls of living things! I can breathe fresh air but I cannot understand why the green grass, the living things around me keep looking so sadly at me!



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It’s all about PLASTIC junk!

submitted by Private candidate : Joslyn Falzon  for 15-18
dissemination(s): newspaper, website
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As one generation ago, the culture of disposable goods was much more on a smaller scale, than nowadays. This photo was taken in an abundant house in Zabbar. Glass bottles, re-usable containers and other recyclable packaging materials could be easily recycled. While plastics can indeed be recycled, they degrade in quality through the recycling process, until eventually plastics can’t be recycled and have to be taken to landfills. Unfortunately times changed, and major businesses found it more cost-effective to use plastic. If everyone in the world simply make a few changes in the way they consume plastic items, the problem would at least be limited and, with changed attitudes, those in power could slowly mend the damage that’s been done. I really hope that in the near future, things will get better and there will be more individual awareness.



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Poor creature

submitted by St Thomas More GSS Santa Lucia : El Kayati Fatima, Farrugia Antonella, Saliba Nicole  for 15-18
dissemination(s): EkoSkola Notice board, FB teachers' group, other, school monitors
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Sometimes the use of pesticides kills insects it is intended to, and others that prey on them. Without these insects the eco system will be in trouble, which will result in damage to our life. Pollution is also dangerous to various creatures because it will effect their life. This insect died because it got trapped in a plastic bag. We need to keep our nature clean from pollution so as to avoid unnecessary deaths.



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