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Every year, on February 11, the world celebrates the United Nations International Day of Women and Girls in Science. While this date is now a global fixture, its origins have a signifi­cant Maltese connection. In 2015, working alongside the Royal Academy of Science International Trust and on Malta’s behalf, I steered the process leading to Resolution

An extraordinary habitat is quietly sustaining our way of life right beneath the glittering surface of Malta’s sea: the Posidonia oceanica . On land, you may recognise it as heaps of dark brown, fibrous seagrass known as banquettes, but underwater this seagrass stretches across the seabed like a vast green forest. And unlike seaweed, this seagrass