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The environment took centre stage when Bermuda was represented at a major international conference on climate change and the island held its first youth summit on the subject. But the month ended with the announcement that part of Marsh Folly was bei...

All of US — by now — have witnessed at least some of the media coverage of the tragic impact of a series of tornadoes that hit eight — from Kentucky to Arkansas — US states. Reports suggest there have been at least 100 deaths across a scene that mirr...

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...

Bermuda will kick off the third season of the international SailGP global sailing league with a regatta next May in the Great Sound, the organisers announced yesterday. And in conjunction with the Bermuda Tourism Authority, Bermuda will also host a ...

Young people responded to a call to take climate action with “overwhelming enthusiasm”, the head of an ocean conservation group said. Karla Lacey, the executive director of the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute, added that the response to the ...

Climate change and cyber risks have reinsurance executives concerned about the future profitability and vitality of the industry. They are seen as key roadblocks to profitability in the near term. Major industry priorities they say should include tec...

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...

I cannot stress strongly enough that this is a last-chance, life-or-death situation, not only for human civilisation as we know it, but for the biosphere (all life) as a whole. We have let this creep up on us without serious consideration for far too...

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...

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...

Insurance executive Stephen Catlin was literally made the poster child for anti-coal campaigners at the London Market Conference as it opened yesterday. Activists have urged his Convex Insurance to join more than 40 other leading insurers and refuse ...

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...