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An environmental charity has set out to raise more than $100,000 to remove scores of abandoned boats that litter the island’s waters. Keep Bermuda Beautiful said it has launched fundraising efforts to tackle the problem of wrecked boats, which the ch...

Efforts to restore the island’s seagrass beds have made slow but steady progress, according to new report. According to the winter edition of the Department of Environment and Natural Resource’s (DENR) Envirotalk newsletter, measures to protect seagr...

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 ...

A coastal clean-up removed tonnes of waste from Bermuda’s shores, according to environmental charity Keep Bermuda Beautiful. The KBB Coastal Clean Up, sponsored by accounting firm EY Bermuda, addressed waste on more than 40 sites across the island be...

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...

Meredith Andrews recognises that passion can sometimes come across as preachy. So instead of banging on about environmentalism, she sorted through the piles and piles of plastic she collected from Bermuda's beaches over the years and transformed them...

Wave power has the potential to meet all the island’s electricity demand, the home affairs minister said today. Walter Roban added a move to wave generation would also lead to cheaper bills for consumers. Mr Roban was speaking as he announced an agre...

Climate change could destroy Bermuda’s reefs and marine life, a youth climate summit was told yesterday. Mark Guishard, the Director of the Bermuda Weather Service, also said Bermuda had a larger carbon footprint on a per capita basis than China - o...

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...

The Government must conduct a robust public consultation before the development of a sustainable offshore fishing industry, a conservation action group has said. Plans to create a marine protected area that prohibits fishing – as well as a fishery – ...

Bermuda-based international specialty re/insurer Convex Group Limited has thrown its financial muscle behind the battle to slow climate change. The company has announced a multimillion-dollar partnership with the Blue Marine Foundation, a UK-register...

News that the island was to become a test bed for renewable energy sources has been welcomed by environmentalists. Karen Border, the executive director for the Bermuda National Trust, said the Throne Speech announcement was “a worthy goal”. But she...