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Straddling a dead whale floating on the open ocean as its carcass is ripped apart by three species of shark isn’t something you can expect to do every day but it’s something Bermudian videographer Choy Aming can now add to his bragging rights. He re...

With the summer season fast approaching, Bermuda Water Safety Council is inviting boat owners to attend a seminar to avoid and deal with emergency situations. Chairman Ralph Richardson said the preseason class would provide new boat owners with basic...

The extent of plastic pollution in Bermuda’s waters will soon become clear as two conservationists plan to sample the sea surrounding the Island. Christian Shaw and Gordon Middleton of research and awareness group Plastic Tides set out on an overnigh...

A team of Danish scientists have painted a worrying picture of the scale of plastic pollution in and around Bermuda. The crew of the Christianshavn visited the Island as part of a major global project to study levels of plastic pollution in the Atlan...

John F Kennedy was the consummate helmsman, figuratively and literally. His long political career, first as a Congressman and US Senator, then as America’s President, was a case study in steering and trimming his sails to take maximum advantage of co...

Race for Water — an offshore trimaran on a 300-day odyssey around the world to study plastics in the ocean — arrived in Bermuda yesterday at the conclusion of a turbulent trip, according to their online log and at the end of the second leg of their j...

Andrew Stevenson’s phone is constantly ringing. It’s been a busy season for whales, and residents want to keep the Island’s expert informed when they are spotted. He has already recorded 58 sightings, and has also identified close to 1,000 flukes in ...

The creation of the world’s largest marine reserve in the Pitcairn Islands represents a missed opportunity for Bermuda to blaze the trail in ocean conservation. This is the view of Chris Flook who, in his former role as a consultant for the Pew Foun...

New data about Bermuda’s sea turtles, including research tracing the journey of young animals from Bermuda to foreign shores, is to be presented at an upcoming talk. Bermuda Turtle Project co-ordinator Jennifer Gray will host the talk at the Bermuda ...

A Bermuda-based oceanographer is being recognised for his decades of research. Dr Craig Carlson is part of the team at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) and a professor of microbial oceanography at the University of California Santa Bar...

Glen Smith, JP, MP, is a One Bermuda Alliance parliamentarian My colleague Mark Pettingill said in the House of Assembly last week that the Opposition was a party full of ideas, but not solutions. He was talking about their championing of deep se...

Sea levels around the Island are rising by an average of 2mm per year due to global climate change, according to the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), and that number is expected to increase. “Decades of tidal gauge measurements, as well as...