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Aspiring marine scientist Eloise Federer has raised $200 for Dolphin Quest and donated $260 to the Marine Mammal Centre — all by making necklaces out of recycled goods. When the eight-year-old came to Bermuda four years ago, she had a passion for mar...

An apparent die-off of fish last week, thought to be caused by a toxic algal bloom or water contamination, turned out to be more mundane in its cause. The many dead fish floating up on the Pembroke shoreline came from a castaway catch, according to a...

The Lionfish exhibition that was hosted by the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute has found a new home at Gorham’s and will later travel to Dockyard. Gorham’s general manager, Andrew Mackay, said: “We were thrilled to welcome the Lionfish trave...

Exactly 200 days after two fishermen found her bobbing aimlessly off the North Shore and gasping for every breath, Daisy the loggerhead turtle has been returned to the open ocean. The endangered creature was on the brink of death, suffering from pneu...

The sixth annual Groundswell Lionfish Tournament has been hailed a “fantastic” success, with a record-breaking 153 lionfish caught by more than 150 participants. “It was fantastic, it went really well,” Selange Gitschner, of Groundswell, told The Ro...

A global marine research project that will begin in Bermuda has received its first financial donation from a local firm. Ocean Tech, which was launched at the beginning of the month, will bring together the world’s top marine scientists and state-of-...

A birthday campaign to raise funds to help preserve and protect the island’s environment has nearly hit its $25,000 target. More than 60 individuals have donated funds to Stuart Hayward’s fundraising drive and raised a total of $23,299. The campaign,...

Boaters are being asked to do their part to protect the nesting sites of the common tern — the critically endangered cousin of the Bermuda longtail. A government spokeswoman said that there are only five nesting pairs in Bermuda, who lay clutches of ...

The cahow chick that has been the star of the 2016 CahowCam livestream has been named Tempest. Chief conservation officer Jeremy Madeiros’s daughter, Elizabeth Madeiros, named the chick after the William Shakespeare play that was based on Bermuda’s f...

New light has been shed on the threats that lionfish could pose to Bermuda’s waters thanks to the publication of a PhD thesis that has been three years in the making. The University of Massachusetts paper by Corey Eddy has drawn on many sources incl...

An “adventure conservationist” group has declared the inaugural Devil’s Isle Challenge a success, raising awareness and funds to support conservation. The event, hosted by Plastic Tides, was described by organisers as an “elite endurance race” with p...

The merging of the Department of Environment Protection and the Department of Conservation Services is expected to save the Bermuda Government $387,000 annually. Cole Simons, the Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, told the House of As...