2187 results returned for search: "" category ("Environment" AND "News")
An environmental charity reminded the public today of the importance of tackling plastic pollution.
Greenrock also offered suggestions to help people cut back on their plastic use as the organisation marked World Environment Day.
A spokesman said: ...
DATE: Jun 05, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Environment
|
AUTHOR:
News Staff
The island’s latest cahow chick has spread its wings and left Bermuda after a record-breaking breeding season.
Jeremy Madeiros, senior terrestrial conservation officer, said the population recovery of the species had “accelerated over the last few y...
DATE: Jun 02, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Environment
|
Fishermen should protect wildlife this month as seabirds migrate through Bermuda’s waters.
Andrew Dobson, president of the Bermuda Audubon Society, said tens of thousands of great shearwaters pass the island every May as they move to the North Atlant...
DATE: May 11, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Environment
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Enforced use of trash bins could help combat a rat population explosion on the island, environmental charities said yesterday. Anne Hyde, Keep Bermuda Beautiful executive director, said householders — particularly those who use communal trash areas —...
DATE: May 11, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Environment
|
Bermuda’s “safest form of pest control” is under threat from water pollution, a researcher who has tracked the island’s cane toad population for about 20 years warned yesterday.
Jamie Bacon, the principal investigator for the Bermuda Amphibian Projec...
DATE: May 10, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Environment
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Whale researcher Andrew Stevenson will use unique aerial footage for a follow-up to his acclaimed documentary Where the Whales Sing.
Mr Stevenson also believes that he now has one of the largest databases in the world held by just one person.
He plan...
DATE: May 08, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Environment
|
AUTHOR:
News Staff
A new study has examined the diet of the invasive lionfish across the Atlantic.
Bermudian researcher Corey Eddy, one of the authors of the article, said the research examined what the species had eaten in order to help determine their impact on the e...
DATE: Apr 26, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Environment
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Experts say the discovery of a dead shark on a South shore beach this week might indicate commercial longline fishing activity not far from Bermuda’s shores.
Video footage of the creature was circulated on social media, including to Choy Aming, of th...
DATE: Apr 20, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Environment
|
AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
What started as a school assignment to clean up a beach has turned into a passion for a schoolboy.
Now Nash Storey, 11, is the unofficial caretaker at Grape Bay Beach in Paget.
The 11-year-old, a pupil at Somersfield Academy, carried out clean-ups ...
DATE: Apr 19, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Environment
|
Mandatory trash recycling could be on the cards, the Minister for Public Works has signalled.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch said: “I am increasingly leaning towards seeking approval for mandatory recycling as those who do recycle appear to have no r...
DATE: Apr 19, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Environment
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes