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Hundreds of volunteers will scatter far and wide across the island today to take part in the EY Coastal Clean-up.
The island-wide event organised by Keep Bermuda Beautiful is part of a global initiative by Ocean Conservancy.
It is also the largest gl...
DATE: Sep 17, 2016
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Environment
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Bermuda’s healthy population of parrotfish, colourful reef grazers that have all but vanished in many islands, are under new study.
Reefs depend on them for survival: without foraging parrotfish, corals smother under seaweed and sponge.
Thanks to a c...
DATE: Sep 15, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Flooded halls, sodden rooms and days of intermittent water for drinking and washing have plagued several residents at the Gulfstream emergency housing complex.
The water issues are part of essential repairs, but occupants at the former barracks in St...
DATE: Sep 15, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s beekeepers are getting back on their feet after the plague that struck their hives in 2008.
The tiny varroa mite preyed on local honey bees eight years ago, causing the number of beehives to fall from 350 to about 125.
But according to the ...
DATE: Sep 14, 2016
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Environment
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Bermuda’s offshore bottlenose dolphins dive deeper and longer than previously thought, marine mammal scientists have discovered.
Researchers have been assessing and tagging four deep water dolphins as part of the Bermuda Wild Dolphin Project, which ...
DATE: Sep 14, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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Thousands of gallons of raw sewage from St George is still being dumped out at sea every day with no fixed timeline for improvements, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
The Ministry of the Environment told this newspaper, in response to questions, that ab...
DATE: Sep 13, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Devonshire residents have called on the Bermuda Government to sort out the mountain of blue bags being stored at the old recycling facility. With the Material Recovery Facility in Hamilton Parish only working “sporadically” since March, a backlog of ...
DATE: Sep 10, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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The island’s incinerator is burning dirty recyclables that cannot be processed by the recycling plant.
According to Keep Bermuda Beautiful’s executive director, the Material Recovery Facility in Hamilton Parish is not equipped to handle severely cont...
DATE: Sep 10, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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Independent tests carried out on water samples from Grape Bay and Hungry Bay at the weekend showed that both beaches were safe for recreational use.
The Royal Gazette commissioned Shervon De Leon, of Bermuda Environmental Laboratories, to collect the...
DATE: Aug 31, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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Initial improvements at Tynes Bay to help tackle the problem of “sewage balls” are expected to be up and running by mid-October.
According to a Bermuda Government spokeswoman, the Flo-Septage receiving station and screening system will improve the q...
DATE: Aug 31, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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