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Saltus Grammar School student Ruskin Cave has won a natural history award after attending a camp on Nonsuch Island.
Ruskin, 16, was presented with the Mervyn White Shield for achieving top marks during the camp which was run by Bermuda Audubon Societ...
DATE: Jul 02, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Thousands of US beaches have been condemned for failing to meet water safety standards — just months after Washington issued a warning to US citizens not to swim in Bermuda because of health fears.
According to a study by environmental advocacy grou...
DATE: Jul 02, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
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
Youngsters at Victor Scott Primary are making a big difference by finding ways to reduce the amount of trash being thrown out, and switching off lights and air conditioning when rooms are not in use to save electricity.
“We’re using 1,000 kilowatts p...
DATE: Jun 26, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
The Bermuda Audubon Society celebrated its 60th anniversary with a dinner and special lecture by Dr Nigel Collar of BirdLife International.
He gave the broad-ranging talk that touched on the impact of birds in everything from Renaissance art to the m...
DATE: Jun 24, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
A petition calling for Somerset Long Bay in Sandys to be made into a turtle sanctuary has attracted more than 450 signatures.
Directed at the newly installed Minister for the Environment, Jeanne Atherden, the petition is now just 30 signatures short ...
DATE: Jun 23, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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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
Five years ago a charred cedar tree root was found 53 feet below the ocean surface, some nine miles north of the Island as it is today. It is evidence of what the 250 square mile Bermuda archipelago looked like some 8,000 years ago — a benchmark for ...
DATE: Jun 20, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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BIOS has an exciting new tool to help them gather vital data on the state of the ocean around us — a $190,000 aquatic robot.
The robot comes in the form of a six ft long, 100lb glider that is battery operated.
Dr Bill Curry, President and Director ...
DATE: Jun 20, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Turtles that were tagged in Bermuda nearly two decades ago have been spotted in Central America.
Three turtles tagged in the 1990s by the Bermuda Turtle Project (BTP) were found nesting on the beaches of Costa Rica and Mexico, each having the same ti...
DATE: Jun 20, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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