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An environmental charity has set out to raise more than $100,000 to remove scores of abandoned boats that litter the island’s waters.
Keep Bermuda Beautiful said it has launched fundraising efforts to tackle the problem of wrecked boats, which the ch...
DATE: Jan 19, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A target date for the completion of the island’s first large-scale solar farm was repeatedly changed, records have revealed.
Updates between the Government and Saturn Solar Bermuda 1, the developer of the six-megawatt plant at the airport, showed tha...
DATE: Jan 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A company running everyday operations at the Finger solar farm is expected to remain on the job if a change of control is completed.
BAC Universal Electric is responsible for repairs and maintenance at the six-megawatt plant, which was developed by S...
DATE: Jan 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A grocery store manager said he nearly jumped out of his skin when he came face to face with a stowaway raccoon in his shipping container.
Chris Smith, a manager at Lindo’s Family Foods, was unloading the container at the Warwick store yesterday lu...
DATE: Jan 13, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A gunpowder magazine built in the 1820s is undergoing intensive restoration helping to keep its important role in Bermuda’s history alive.
The project is part of the wider St George’s Foundation restoration programme at Ferry Point Park in St George...
DATE: Jan 13, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A mother whose toddler son’s foot was gashed by broken glass at a beach appealed yesterday for people to be more careful with bottles.
Rebecca Barker said a pleasant day out turned to shock after her son crawled from Somerset Long Bay the beach towa...
DATE: Jan 06, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Eagle-eyed bird watchers logged 7,561 individual birds in one day during Bermuda’s 47th annual Christmas Bird Count.
A total of 83 species were seen on the “count day” – Saturday, December 18 – and an additional 12 species were spotted during the “c...
DATE: Jan 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Scientists have discovered a new species of fish – described as a “living fossil” – in the deep waters off Bermuda.
Polymixia hollisterea – a species of spiny-rayed beardfish – was named in honour of Gloria Hollister, a pioneering female marine b...
DATE: Dec 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Efforts to restore the island’s seagrass beds have made slow but steady progress, according to new report.
According to the winter edition of the Department of Environment and Natural Resource’s (DENR) Envirotalk newsletter, measures to protect seagr...
DATE: Dec 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A school has turned trash into treasure to create a calendar designed to highlight plastic pollution.
The 2022 calendar for Mount Saint Agnes Academy features works of art created by pupils from discarded pieces of plastic collected from around the i...
DATE: Dec 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson