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Ageing smokestacks at the Belco power station that were blamed for pollution are to be shut down by the end of the year, the company revealed yesterday. Belco said the decommissioning should cut down on discharges that have blighted the lives of neig...

On July 31st, 2020, a former Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) employee was gifted a basil plant, which had been purchased at a local plant nursery. Accompanying the yellowing basil plant was a healthy, vigorously growing dodder ...

The Bermuda Audubon Society is to object to an application to renew approval for a development on the grounds of historic Walsingham House, the organisation’s president said yesterday. The Hamilton Parish property, home to Tom Moore’s Tavern, is owne...

Pollution from the Belco power station was condemned by householders in the area yesterday — including a veteran environmentalist who has highlighted the problem for decades. Gary Hayward, a lifelong resident of Twin Lane Place, which overlooks the p...

Consultants have been asked to help come up with a regulatory framework and plan to develop laws for water and wastewater operations. The Government told potential bidders that the work of organisations such as the Regulatory Authority and Environmen...

During the COVID-19 global pandemic, the Department of Planning has continued to provide key services to the public and industry stakeholders. Statistics confirm that there was an uptick in developments presented to the Department of Planning, which ...

A dock built at a St George’s park without planning permission has been torn down by the Government. Island Construction began demolishing the estimated $30,000 build at Rocky Hill yesterday morning and expected it to be completed by the end of the d...

Renewed calls to ban glyphosate-based weedkillers in Bermuda have been made after the company that owns the Roundup brand said it would pay almost $11 billion to settle cancer claims linked to the product. Campaigners said alternative ways to control...

An injured falcon nursed back to health last year has decided to stay in Bermuda, zoologists have revealed. A tracker device has shown the peregrine falcon, christened Milly after she was found weak an underweight last November, and which was release...

Measures designed to slow the spread of Covid-19 resulted in cleaner air, an environmental study has found. Drew Pettit, the director of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, said the department recorded a “noticeable improvement” in a...