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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...

An initiative to study life in Bermuda’s waters has been given an almost $450,000 grant by the UK Government. The donation was one of several unveiled on Saturday as part of World Environment Day, during which the UK announced it would invest more th...

A virtual career fair to highlight maritime careers is to be held next month. The Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute event, on June 8, will give middle and secondary school pupils and college students a chance to learn more about a range of car...

Some scientists journey to to the opposite side of the world to discover new forms of life – but a researcher in Bermuda found possible unknown species in his lab’s plumbing. Leocadio Blanco-Bercial, an ecologist at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sci...

A battery of scientific instruments in a special pod which was lost at sea for two years has been turned over to their owners after it washed up in Bermuda. The 800lb pod, designed to measure ocean conditions, drifted hundreds of miles from just off ...

International ocean experts have joined forces to launch a “virtual education series” on the seas around Bermuda. The first episode of Ocean Diaries went online this week as part of a collaboration between the Bermuda Zoological Society, the Bermuda ...

Expertise and supplies from the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences are helping the island to battle Covid-19. Rachel Parsons Biggs, a BIOS microbiologist, was seconded to Helix Bermuda, the forensics and clinical testing company where testing for th...

A robot submarine is to be deployed in a bid to study microscopic organisms in the island’s underwater caves. Researchers at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences were awarded a Trident remote operated vehicle by Conservation X Labs, a US-based env...

Schoolchildren got a taste of cutting-edge technology as part of a workshop at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences. Underwater robots, coding and game development were among the subjects explored on the Tools of Ocean Exploration event at the bio...

Researchers have carried out a genetic study of Bermuda’s baitfish to help develop a management programme for the several species in island waters. Baitfish, also known as fry, often school in coastal waters and different species group together in “b...

Both BIOS and Bermuda College are known for providing outstanding educational opportunities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects for the island’s young people. While the Bermuda College is a degree-granting institution ...