259 results returned for search: "" category "Environment" author Sarah Lagan
A fourth video camera has been set up at a cahow nesting site in an attempt to film a cahow chick spread its wings and head out to sea.
Nonsuch Expeditions and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in New York set up the camera on the surface at Nonsuch Is...
DATE: Jun 06, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Bermuda’s recycling plant could handle at least four times the amount of waste it processes at present, it was revealed yesterday.
And Clarkson Trott, the solid waste manager at the public works ministry, said the public should recycle more trash to ...
DATE: Jun 06, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A film made to highlight the proposed development of a marine protected area by 2021 has been released.
Walter Roban, the Home Affairs Minister and Deputy Premier, is featured in the short movie talking about the Bermuda Ocean Prosperity Programme th...
DATE: Jun 06, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Three schoolgirls have joined an effort to outlaw sunscreens that can damage coral reefs.
Maya Rajeh, 14, Daphne Szakats, 13, and Jaedyn Judd, 14, of Somersfield Academy, used their community service project to highlight research that showed the dama...
DATE: May 23, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A multimillion-dollar marine research robot will be based in Bermuda from this summer.
The hi-tech Remus 100, designed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, will be used to collect valuable information on the state of the seas...
DATE: May 17, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The owners of a controversial dairy farm accused of causing a stink could face legal action from neighbours if they fail to meet a June 30 deadline to clean up their act.
Almost 400 people have complained about Green Land Dairy Farm in Smith’s and pr...
DATE: May 09, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A mural designed to highlight the dangers of plastic pollution in the seas has gone on display at the new visitor services centre in Hamilton.
The artwork, created by photographer Meredith Andrews from plastic waste collected from the island’s shorel...
DATE: Apr 29, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Researchers are checking if a rare variant of sargassum seaweed that has invaded Caribbean coastlines could make its way to Bermuda.
Robbie Smith, the curator of the Natural History Museum at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo, is working on a stud...
DATE: Apr 27, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A bright idea to let people change old-style lightbulbs for energy-efficient LEDs is to be launched next month.
The Department of Energy has teamed up with stores to offer one free LED in exchange for an incandescent bulb from May 1.
Walter Roban, th...
DATE: Apr 09, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Sargasso Sea Commission is celebrating the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Hamilton Declaration on Collaboration for the Conservation of the Sargasso Sea.
The commission is to host a workshop from Wednesday to Friday at the Bermuda Instit...
DATE: Mar 11, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan