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A top US scientific research centre’s ties with the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences will open opportunities for Bermudian and American scientists, the head of BIOS has said. William Curry, the BIOS president, said the East End research station’s ...

Bermuda was in the spotlight over the weekend in a US TV segment that featured an island scientist and a centuries-old sea mystery. The island’s position on the edge of the Sargasso Sea brought a CBS crew to the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences to...

An ecology student who completed an ambitious thesis with flying colours has been named Bermuda’s latest Rhodes Scholar. Emma O’Donnell, 22, a Princeton University graduate, was given the two-year scholarship to study environmental sustainability at ...

Two scientists at the Bermuda Institute for Ocean Science are set to leave Bermuda’s warm waters for the Arctic as part of an international study. According to the November edition of BIOS’s Currents newsletter, Becky Garley and Matt Enright, BIOS re...

Three research programmes at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences have been given new funds to continue their work. The Bermuda Bio-Optics Programme was awarded cash by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Hydrostation S was ba...

An island research organisation has teamed up with a US university to study the role of the ocean in climate change. The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences has joined forces with Arizona State University’s Global Futures Laboratory to carry out the ...

Dear Sir, I refer to today’s (August 17, 2021) rightful clarion call by Jennifer Gray, who has so effectively headed Bermuda’s Turtle Project for so very many years. As an internationally patented inventor, I respectfully suggest the following in the...

Power firm Belco has applied for permission to lay underwater cables in Castle Harbour. A planning application showed cables stretching from Coney Island Road, near the Coney Island Bridge and Bailey’s Bay Cricket Club field, to Stone Crusher Corner,...

Soon Bermuda will know exactly what ends up in house tanks as improvements are planned for the island’s rooftop rain collection method. Tariq Smith, an environmental scientist and water engineer, last week told Hamilton Rotary Club about what goes in...

Pupils with a passion for robotics took on the opportunity of a lifetime and helped a team of scientists deploy an underwater drone. Twenty youngsters with the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences travelled to a wreck off St David’s and to reefs at No...

A call for vulnerable sharks to be spared from fishing came from an environmentalist after pictures circulated via social media showed two dead tiger sharks aboard an unidentified boat. Tiger sharks are not only under threat, but crucial to the healt...

New temporary residents are settling down to life at Warwick Academy’s marine science centre. The school was given a variety of live corals this month by the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences with the Living Reef Foundation. A spokeswoman for the m...