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Piles of trash have grown around the Botanical Gardens for months as Government staff ignored the mess, members of the public have claimed.
A woman who walks her dog through the gardens, who asked not to be named, said two piles of trash had formed o...
DATE: Dec 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A coastal clean-up removed tonnes of waste from Bermuda’s shores, according to environmental charity Keep Bermuda Beautiful.
The KBB Coastal Clean Up, sponsored by accounting firm EY Bermuda, addressed waste on more than 40 sites across the island be...
DATE: Dec 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Two scientists at the Bermuda Institute for Ocean Science are set to leave Bermuda’s warm waters for the Arctic as part of an international study.
According to the November edition of BIOS’s Currents newsletter, Becky Garley and Matt Enright, BIOS re...
DATE: Dec 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A bust-up over the state of the Tynes Bay incinerator heated up yesterday as the Government was accused of failure to act on promises of investment in the plant that dated back decades.
A major announcement by Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the publ...
DATE: Dec 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
Young people responded to a call to take climate action with “overwhelming enthusiasm”, the head of an ocean conservation group said.
Karla Lacey, the executive director of the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute, added that the response to the ...
DATE: Dec 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
The Railway Trail network is to be cleaned up and maintained by a massive volunteer effort from international businesses.
The Association of International Companies (ABIC) has teamed up with Keep Bermuda Beautiful (KBB) and the department of parks to...
DATE: Dec 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The use of a compost centre as an emergency landfill site could be eased after emergency repairs were completed at the Tynes Bay incinerator.
Wayne Furbert, the Acting Minister of Public Works, said that the incinerator had started to work through a ...
DATE: Dec 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Environmental groups have raised concerns about plans to build a new hospice in Warwick.
Both the Bermuda Audubon Society and the Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce have filed objections to plans, put forward by the Friends of Hospice.
Th...
DATE: Dec 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Bermuda Tourism Authority has been forced to pull a misleading image of the Botanical Gardens from its website – because the old photograph of manicured flower beds is a world away from the state of the grounds at present.
The BTA website said i...
DATE: Nov 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The teenage creator of an international organisation set up to translate climate change literature into dozens of languages helped close a major conference for young people on Saturday.
Sophia Kianni, 19, the keynote speaker at the Youth Climate Summ...
DATE: Nov 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan