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A grocery store manager said he nearly jumped out of his skin when he came face to face with a stowaway raccoon in his shipping container.
Chris Smith, a manager at Lindo’s Family Foods, was unloading the container at the Warwick store yesterday lu...
DATE: Jan 13, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A gunpowder magazine built in the 1820s is undergoing intensive restoration helping to keep its important role in Bermuda’s history alive.
The project is part of the wider St George’s Foundation restoration programme at Ferry Point Park in St George...
DATE: Jan 13, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A mother whose toddler son’s foot was gashed by broken glass at a beach appealed yesterday for people to be more careful with bottles.
Rebecca Barker said a pleasant day out turned to shock after her son crawled from Somerset Long Bay the beach towa...
DATE: Jan 06, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Eagle-eyed bird watchers logged 7,561 individual birds in one day during Bermuda’s 47th annual Christmas Bird Count.
A total of 83 species were seen on the “count day” – Saturday, December 18 – and an additional 12 species were spotted during the “c...
DATE: Jan 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Scientists have discovered a new species of fish – described as a “living fossil” – in the deep waters off Bermuda.
Polymixia hollisterea – a species of spiny-rayed beardfish – was named in honour of Gloria Hollister, a pioneering female marine b...
DATE: Dec 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Efforts to restore the island’s seagrass beds have made slow but steady progress, according to new report.
According to the winter edition of the Department of Environment and Natural Resource’s (DENR) Envirotalk newsletter, measures to protect seagr...
DATE: Dec 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A school has turned trash into treasure to create a calendar designed to highlight plastic pollution.
The 2022 calendar for Mount Saint Agnes Academy features works of art created by pupils from discarded pieces of plastic collected from around the i...
DATE: Dec 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Christmas Day revellers who plan to gather for a traditional beach party were today asked to keep the area clean for the holiday.
Keep Bermuda Beautiful said people who lived around Elbow Beach in Paget were helping the charity to put out extra trash...
DATE: Dec 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The cahow conservation programme on Nonsuch Island has been featured in the cover story of America’s national Audubon magazine
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The winter edition of the magazine included an article on the birds written by Jessica Bruder, whose book Nomadland:...
DATE: Dec 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The last remaining residential property on a busy Hamilton road is to be demolished.
Rose Cottage, on Par-la-Ville Road, stands in the shadow of multi-storey office blocks that are home to law and accountancy firms, as well as international businesse...
DATE: Dec 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan