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People eat about a credit card’s worth of plastic every week, it was revealed at a youth climate change summit yesterday.
The stomach-churning news was featured in a video presentation that showed that people ingested about five grams of microplastic...
DATE: Nov 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
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...
DATE: Nov 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
The Botanical Gardens could be lost to future generations unless a proper management plan is introduced, a government landscape architect has warned.
Danny Simmons said that government staff could face a “wide range of issues” such as uncontrolled he...
DATE: Nov 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A gardening club yesterday donated $10,000 to a nature restoration project in celebration of the club’s centennial anniversary.
The Garden Club of Bermuda gave the cheque to the Buy Back Bermuda (BBB) group to help them complete the restoration of Ev...
DATE: Nov 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A 60-year-old US Navy submersible that carried out the first survey of the tragic liner Titanic yesterday took the waters off St George.
The boat completed its first round of tests after a major refit designed to boost its performance.
The mini-subma...
DATE: Nov 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A woman’s campaign against litter on the island has gone viral after she posted her trash pickups on social media.
Stephanie Brown said that she had carried out litter collections and posted them on social media to motivate others people to do the sa...
DATE: Oct 21, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A variety of proposals to renovate two Government buildings have been submitted, the Ministry of Public Works said earlier this week.
A ministry spokesman said three groups had drawn up plans to renovate the old prison service headquarters on Happy V...
DATE: Oct 21, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A marine science museum will screen a series of free documentaries on climate change for youngsters from this weekend.
A spokeswoman for the BUEI said: “Being able to show a variety of films means there should be something interesting for everyone.
“...
DATE: Oct 09, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A law designed to safeguard Bermuda’s borders from the threat of destructive pests will help protect the environment for future generations, the home affairs minister has said.
But Walter Roban added that the Invasive Alien Species Act would not pena...
DATE: Oct 04, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A footbridge that will extend the Railway Trail over Flatts Inlet is expected to be completed by October, a spokesman for Friends of the Railway Trail said yesterday.
Tucker Murphy confirmed that volunteer construction workers started building pylons...
DATE: Aug 09, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson