259 results returned for search: "" category "Environment" author Sarah Lagan
New light has been shed on the threats that lionfish could pose to Bermuda’s waters thanks to the publication of a PhD thesis that has been three years in the making.
The University of Massachusetts paper by Corey Eddy has drawn on many sources incl...
DATE: Jun 02, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A Bermudian student has been selected to attend an environmental sustainability conference taking place in New Zealand.
Jendayi Joell was one of 25 students attending North Carolina State University to be given the opportunity to attend the Sustaini...
DATE: May 05, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Bermuda Poultry Fanciers Society is to hold its annual competition this month and the deadline for entrants is today.
The event is due to take place at the Jack King Building in the Botanical Gardens on February 19, 20 and 21 and will include tu...
DATE: Feb 09, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
At just 13, Magnus Henneberger has decided his future may lie with protecting the ocean environment.
The Saltus Grammar School student discovered an interest in marine biology after a talk at an assembly by an American environmental group, Plastic T...
DATE: Jan 18, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The unsightly pile of blue bags outside the Devon Springs Recycling Centre continues to mount due to continuing operational problems at the Material Recovery Facility.
The Devonshire site was badly damaged during Hurricane Gonzalo in 2014.
In Septemb...
DATE: Jan 16, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
This osprey was photographed soaring in the skies above Fort Scaur on Sunday.
Keen photographer Roland Tear snapped the photo of the osprey, a species occasionally spotted in Bermuda over the winter.
Mr Tear has been taking photos for more than ten...
DATE: Jan 14, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Members of the Garden Club of Bermuda are co-ordinating a clean-up event with Keep Bermuda Beautiful ahead of the Bermuda Marathon Weekend.
The members will be clearing litter from race areas, with a focus on Palmetto Road and North Shore.
The gard...
DATE: Jan 13, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Facilitators of the South Basin infill project have said the plumes of sediment caused by the dredging of the North Channel were anticipated and are not a threat to the marine environment.
The ACBDA said that members of the public had expressed conc...
DATE: Oct 28, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Australian entrepreneur and photographer Reg Grundy has a new set of wildlife photographs on display in the United States customs hall at LF Wade International Airport.
Mr Grundy, perhaps best known for producing the hugely popular Australian soap ...
DATE: Oct 09, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Coral expert Thad Murdoch has warned that Bermuda’s reef system would end up a flat, algae-covered rockscape if parrotfish were fished to any great lengths.
He was speaking after the Fisheries Department found more than 40 speared parrotfish, a prot...
DATE: Jul 07, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan