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A 200 year-old palmetto tree in Scotland’s capital city will be cut down today – but it is scheduled to live on through descendants overseas and in Bermuda.
The 60ft tree, the oldest plant in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh’s living collection, ha...
DATE: Sep 28, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The team behind a major survey of plastic pollution in the waters around Bermuda will tonight talk about their findings.
Plastic Tides — which carried out an 11-day trip around Bermuda on paddleboards — looked at plastic pollution in the ocean.
Now t...
DATE: Jun 26, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Bermuda’s waters are polluted with high levels of plastic waste, according to an international team of conservationists.
The Plastic Tides team are spending nearly a fortnight on the Island, using paddleboards to sample the seas for micro-plastics — ...
DATE: Jun 23, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The water off Bermuda’s beaches remain clean, Government said last night.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Health said that regular monitoring at beaches so far this year had found no pollution problems.
Beaches checked include tourist magnets lik...
DATE: Jun 07, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Rules on disposing of grease from commercial kitchens have been restated in the wake of sewage balls washing up on Bermuda’s beaches.
The joint statement from the Department of Health and City of Hamilton council reminds food businesses of the regula...
DATE: Apr 26, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A hi-tech sewage plant at the new hospital wing has come on line, it was announced yesterday.
Bermuda Hospitals Board CEO Venetta Symonds said the plant, thought to have cost several million dollars, was at present only providing a basic level of tre...
DATE: Apr 04, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
