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Switching Bermuda from fossil fuels to renewable energy is more complex than we realise, according to scientist and author David Chapman.
“Bermuda faces interesting challenges because of its small size,” Mr Chapman told Hamilton Rotary, in a talk on ...
DATE: Apr 20, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Development plans for the site of Hamilton’s Old Canadian Hotel remain in limbo, according to property owner Thomas Powell.
Mr Powell last month submitted plans for mixed use development of the half-acre site at junction of Reid Street and Court Stre...
DATE: Apr 07, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A young female harbour seal that arrived in Bermuda over the weekend died yesterday, according to the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo (BAMZ).
The pup, believed to be about nine months old, had lost half its body weight after crossing hundreds of mil...
DATE: Apr 06, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda now has an “adopt-a-beach” programme, thanks to eight-year-old Samuel Bleeker. The East End Primary pupil has been commended by Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith.
Samuel said he noticed the scheme about three weeks ago while researching ...
DATE: Mar 02, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An updated survey of the world’s reefs ranks Bermuda as among the most vulnerable to reef loss.
Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences director Tony Knap said: “The most important thing we can take away from this report is that we in Bermuda have a lot ...
DATE: Mar 01, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Railway Trail in Southampton got a welcome clean-up over the weekend, with volunteers joining Keep Bermuda Beautiful (KBB).
Trash including an engine, old windows, a microwave, a television and a kitchen sink were hauled away by a KBB team with t...
DATE: Feb 22, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Plans to develop at Horseshoe Beach should have been open to the public, environmentalists have charged.
A proposal by South Shore Hospitality Group to build a two-storey restaurant in the park is currently before Planning. Environmental activist Gra...
DATE: Feb 03, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermudian students investigate a previously-unexplored shipwreck in a new film on the Island’s underwater heritage.
‘Reefs, Wrecks and Renegades’ follows middle school students on the Bermuda Sloop Foundation’s Spirit of Bermuda, as they study a wrec...
DATE: Feb 02, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s wetlands enjoy a special anniversary today, with 40 years since an international convention was signed to protect them.
World Wetlands Day marks the 1971 Ramsar Convention, of which Bermuda is a member along with 158 other countries.
Public...
DATE: Feb 02, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Students are getting lessons on the power of their everyday decisions from Government’s Sustainable Development Unit (SDU).
The aim is to raise awareness of the SDU and the environmental, social and economic issues affecting Bermuda as part of a prog...
DATE: Jan 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
