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A robot submarine is to be deployed in a bid to study microscopic organisms in the island’s underwater caves. Researchers at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences were awarded a Trident remote operated vehicle by Conservation X Labs, a US-based env...

Almost 200 loads of bulk waste were disposed of last weekend as part of an island-wide clean-up effort, it was revealed this week. The bulky waste clean-up, organised by the Ministry of Public Works and Keep Bermuda Beautiful, was designed to encoura...

Plans to install equipment to reduce the smell of manure at a Devonshire farm are dependent on a manure management plan, the Government said. A spokeswoman for the Department of Planning confirmed a revised application for infrastructure to tackle od...

The former owners of land earmarked for a quarry said they had not expected the site to be worked when they sold it. Katherina Harlow, whose family sold the land at Judkin Lane, Hamilton Parish, in January 2019, said they had expected a house to be b...

A renowned environmentalist has called for a proposed quarry in a protected area to be scrapped. David Wingate said the quarry, which would be sited on a woodland-zoned area on Judkin Lane, Hamilton Parish, was against planning policy. He said: “We c...

A new group to tackle the risks of climate change to Bermuda has been set up. Glenn Fubler, a spokesman for the Bermuda Climate Action Network. said members had met for several months to find ways to cope with the global emergency of climate change a...

Bermuda’s national bird has bounced back from the brink of extinction with a record-breaking breeding season. Jeremy Madeiros, the chief terrestrial conservation officer for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, said in the Bermuda Aud...

Asbestos fears at the West End will be investigated today by an expert on the hazardous building material. Concerns of possible asbestos debris were raised over a building on Boaz Island in Sandys, damaged last week in Hurricane Humberto. A West End ...

Bernard Park has been decorated with brightly coloured waste bins with help from schoolchildren and Butterfield Bank employees. Staff from the bank worked alongside students from Impact Mentoring Academy, on the Keep Bermuda Beautiful’s Artful Bins p...

A diving club took the plunge last weekend as part of a massive marine cleanup effort. A total of 15 divers from the Bermuda Sub Aqua Club, about a quarter of its membership, combed Harrington Sound to collect trash. A spokeswoman for the club said: ...