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Youngsters who have pledged to help reverse the effects of climate change yesterday met potential sponsors. Hundreds of middle and high schoolchildren gathered at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute for the second last day of the Youth Clima...

The island’s biggest nature reserve will open to the public early next year after four years of development. The Riddell’s Bay Gardens and Nature Reserve, on a former golf course in Warwick, covers 66 acres and includes walking trails, gardens and wa...

Flooding will become a major problem for Bermuda as global warming increases, a risk analyst warned yesterday. Angela A’Zary, the senior vice-president of client risk analytics at reinsurance firm RenaissanceRe, said that flood-prone areas such as M...

Electricity from Bermuda’s first large-scale solar farm has started to feed into the island’s electricity grid, power firm Belco revealed yesterday. A Belco spokesman said that the six-megawatt solar farm – on a disused runway at the airport called t...

A recovery programme for the rare cahow has logged a record number of breeding pairs this year. The number of pairs on Nonsuch Island, off St George’s, increased from 143 breeding pairs last year to 156 this year. The cahows are identified with band...

A 14-year-old campaigner who brought a contaminated water crisis in a US city into the national spotlight yesterday told young Bermudians to make their voices heard. Mari Copeny, who has campaigned for social justice since she was 8, said that yo...

The public works ministry has confirmed work has started to clear flood-prone canals. The news came after the The Royal Gazette last week highlighted the plight of an elderly man, Francis Jeffers, whose caregiver could not get to his house because of...

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...

Wave power has the potential to meet all the island’s electricity demand, the home affairs minister said today. Walter Roban added a move to wave generation would also lead to cheaper bills for consumers. Mr Roban was speaking as he announced an agre...

A pilot project to restore endemic trees through micro forests and teach young people about conservation has put out its first shoots. The Bermuda Zoological Society launched the BZS Micro Forest Project this month with financial backing from reinsu...