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Environmental groups have raised concerns about plans to build a new hospice in Warwick.
Both the Bermuda Audubon Society and the Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce have filed objections to plans, put forward by the Friends of Hospice.
Th...
DATE: Dec 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Bermuda Tourism Authority has been forced to pull a misleading image of the Botanical Gardens from its website – because the old photograph of manicured flower beds is a world away from the state of the grounds at present.
The BTA website said i...
DATE: Nov 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The teenage creator of an international organisation set up to translate climate change literature into dozens of languages helped close a major conference for young people on Saturday.
Sophia Kianni, 19, the keynote speaker at the Youth Climate Summ...
DATE: Nov 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Youngsters who have pledged to help reverse the effects of climate change yesterday met potential sponsors.
Hundreds of middle and high schoolchildren gathered at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute for the second last day of the Youth Clima...
DATE: Nov 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
The island’s biggest nature reserve will open to the public early next year after four years of development.
The Riddell’s Bay Gardens and Nature Reserve, on a former golf course in Warwick, covers 66 acres and includes walking trails, gardens and wa...
DATE: Nov 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Flooding will become a major problem for Bermuda as global warming increases, a risk analyst warned yesterday.
Angela A’Zary, the senior vice-president of client risk analytics at reinsurance firm RenaissanceRe, said that flood-prone areas such as M...
DATE: Nov 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Electricity from Bermuda’s first large-scale solar farm has started to feed into the island’s electricity grid, power firm Belco revealed yesterday.
A Belco spokesman said that the six-megawatt solar farm – on a disused runway at the airport called t...
DATE: Nov 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A recovery programme for the rare cahow has logged a record number of breeding pairs this year.
The number of pairs on Nonsuch Island, off St George’s, increased from 143 breeding pairs last year to 156 this year.
The cahows are identified with band...
DATE: Nov 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A 14-year-old campaigner who brought a contaminated water crisis in a US city into the national spotlight yesterday told young Bermudians to make their voices heard.
Mari Copeny, who has campaigned for social justice since she was 8, said that yo...
DATE: Nov 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
The public works ministry has confirmed work has started to clear flood-prone canals.
The news came after the The Royal Gazette last week highlighted the plight of an elderly man, Francis Jeffers, whose caregiver could not get to his house because of...
DATE: Nov 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan