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A proposal to build a facility in St David’s to incinerate medical waste has been given the green light by the Department of Planning. The application by MediWaste proposed the erection of a new structure on industrially zoned land on Wallers Point R...

A team of international researchers has turned its focus on the island’s air and water as part of a study of trace elemental gases in the atmosphere. According to BIOS’s Currents newsletter, the project, called the Bermuda boundary layer experiment...

More microforests are set to appear around the island as a Bermuda Zoological Society project to plant more trees and shrubs continues to grow. While five microforests have already been established, it is hoped that another three will be planted befo...

An activist pulled almost a tonne of trash from Bermuda’s waters this summer after she relaunched what had been an annual fundraising campaign. Karen Plianthos said that while Covid-19 and raising two young children had caused her Cash Trash Bash cam...

Planning officials have urged the Minister of Home Affairs to reject a conservation management plan for a Tucker’s Point property after the developers cleared a swath of nature reserve to create an ocean view. According to planning documents, RWTP Go...

Plans to build a new warehouse to serve the Ocean View Golf Course have been rejected over the location of the project on woodlands reserve. The project was originally proposed for a site occupied by the existing warehouse, but plans were shifted aft...

Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, met with representatives from the Caribbean this week as the region prepares for the COP 27 climate conference in Egypt. Mr Roban travelled to Nassau in the Bahamas to take part in the First Regional Heads ...

The public has been warned against releasing pets into the wild after reports of several guinea pigs being dumped at Spittal Pond Nature Reserve. A spokesman for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources said: “While guinea pigs are trendy ...

Guinea pigs and rabbits are being released into the wild in increasing numbers and are creating a potential environmental threat, according to the SPCA. Kate Terceira, executive director of the charity, said they had seen a rise in reports of pets, i...

Volunteers took to the Warwick Railway Trail yesterday in an effort to clean up litter and waste. A spokesman for the community group Bermuda is Love said six people lent a hand for the cleanup, which took place on the Camp Hill/Riddell’s Bay area of...