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Climate consensus remains despite revisions to far-end emission scenarios

Environment, Fact Check, Science, Society

Recent adjustments to the most extreme scenarios included in key UN climate reports are being misrepresented across social media, including by US President Donald Trump. These updates do not discredit the strong concensus in climate research showing human emissions are behind major environmental shifts and the changes were recommended by independent experts to reflect renewable energy implementation.

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Fact-check Malta: Viral video of Gozo ferry dates back to 2010

Environment, Fact Check

January 26, 2026 As Malta braced for Storm Harry’s gale force winds on Monday January 19, Maltese social media was hit with a wave of storm-related misinformation, with footage of years-old storms resurfacing and shared as new. In one case, footage of a Gozo Channel ferry attempting to carry passengers between the islands of Malta

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Fact-check Malta: What does a proposed planning reform say about regularising illegal properties?

Environment, Fact Check, Politics, Society

October 13, 2025 Claim: A proposed reform to planning laws only allows illegal developments to be regularised if a small part of the development is illegal Verdict: The proposed laws allow people to apply to have an entire illegal development regularised, not just a small part of it. A fiery debate between Michael Stivala,

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Fact-check Malta: Misleading claims around PN’s environmental bill

Environment, Fact Check, Politics

A bill proposing the right to a clean environment was shot down last week, with critics warning of its negative repercussions

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Fact-check Malta: What’s going on with the Ta’ Qali picnic area ground cover?

Environment, Fact Check

Photos of the area covered in gravel sparked an outcry

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Fact-check Malta: What Transport Malta’s boat mooring plans for Għadira actually say

Environment, Fact Check, Society

We take a look at what has changed at the popular bay after concerns were raised

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Fact-check Malta: How much did MIDI pay for Manoel Island?

Environment, Fact Check, Politics, Society

The concession agreement signed in 2000 sheds light on the project’s finances

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Fact-check Malta: What does an impact assessment into the new Magħtab incinerator say?

Environment, Fact Check, Health, Politics, Society

Public outcry on incinerator and conflicting claims over its impact

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Fact-check Malta: examining Robert Abela’s claims about public transport

Environment, Fact Check, Politics

Is Malta the only country to offer free public transport? And are the Maltese using buses more frequently? Abela certainly thinks so

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No, ‘weather modification vessels’ were not responsible for Valencia’s deadly floods

Environment, Fact Check, Science

“The mysterious ship that generates electricity happened to be in Spain a few days ago. #HAARP”, read one Facebook post from November 3, 2024, shared over 7,200 times since. It shared a video of a cargo ship with a dozen smokestacks and high-voltage pylons on its deck.

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