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A documentary to chart the collection of more than three tonnes of plastic waste from a beach over an 18 month period is to to be made.
Film company LookBermuda, a film company, has teamed up with Keep Bermuda Beautiful for the film of the work on ...
DATE: Dec 23, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Clean air campaigners today appealed to power firm Belco to help form a community advisory committee to foster better relations between the power plant and its neighbours.
The Bermuda Clean Air Coalition, whose members include local residents, busine...
DATE: Dec 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A new moth has set up home in Bermuda – although how the species arrived is a mystery.
The “exceptionally large” fig sphinx moth was first recorded in Bermuda in October 2017 and their numbers have risen since then.
Claire Jessey, an entomologist wit...
DATE: Dec 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
This year’s hurricane season underlined the need to protect Bermuda’s national bird, researchers have said.
Jeremy Madeiros, the chief terrestrial conservation officer at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, said in the winter edition...
DATE: Dec 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Empty warehouses in Dockyard could become a new West End base for Marine and Ports, according to a planning document.
The plans, submitted earlier this month, propose turning three unused warehouses on the eastern side of Freeport Drive into workshop...
DATE: Dec 17, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Trash collection schedules will change next week and the following week to accommodate public holidays.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Public Works said that waste usually collected on Wednesdays and Thursdays will be collected only on Wednesday nex...
DATE: Dec 15, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Government this week allayed concerns that prime farmland at the West End was under threat from a developer.
Ageing buildings at Tudor Farm, on the border of Southampton and Sandys, are to be refurbished for continued agricultural use under a public-...
DATE: Dec 10, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Old engines and stacks at Belco have been decommissioned and will be dismantled next year, the company said today.
Eight engines, some of which had been in service for half a century, and five exhaust stacks at the utility firm’s Serpentine Road plan...
DATE: Dec 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Bermuda Advocates For Safe Technology is encouraging members of the community to submit their feedback on the implementation of 5G technology on Bermuda to the Regulatory Authority.
Submissions which form part of the RA’s public consultation can be m...
DATE: Dec 07, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Pupils enrolled in a competitive volunteer programme through the Bermuda Zoological Society have been given a second chance to complete it in the wake of Covid-19.
The Junior Volunteer programme requires a year-long commitment to support the Bermuda ...
DATE: Dec 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes