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Replacements for Swing Bridge and Longbird Bridge are in the pipeline after a contract for design work was handed to a British team.
Both of the East End structures have suffered major deterioration in recent years, and Swing Bridge was subject to em...
DATE: Dec 05, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Residents can discuss a new water strategy for St George’s at a meeting next week.
The Bermuda Government said it has selected its preferred water and wastewater servicing for the East End after reviewing the likely environmental impact of potential ...
DATE: Dec 04, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A beach cleanup will take place on Saturday at Frank’s Bay and the Railway Trail in Southampton.
The event is organised by One Communications, which is encouraging friends and family to help out.
Network engineer Michele Belvedere said: “While our da...
DATE: Dec 04, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Union Street in Hamilton was abuzz yesterday as thousands of bees were removed from their hive.
Steven DeSilva of the Corporation of Hamilton said the hive had been in a tree in Middle Town, North Hamilton, for more than a decade, but residents in th...
DATE: Nov 30, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Animal welfare experts have urged the public to act quickly and call the aquarium if they see signs of a turtle in distress.
The call came after a young green turtle died in the waters off Lagoon Park, in Sandys, after it got entangled in monofilamen...
DATE: Nov 12, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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The Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Task Force has reported difficulties for persons commenting on the proposed use of quad bikes on West End park land.
The concept, which has been branded “troublesome” by BEST, has been opened to the public for...
DATE: Nov 11, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Only a quarter of a gasoline spill at a fuel depot in St George’s has been recovered seven months after the incident, government environmental watchdogs said today.
And traces of the leak have spread outside the Rubis site where the accident happened...
DATE: Oct 27, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The endangered Bermuda bean has earned a place in a conservation bank intended to preserve international species.
Samples of the species, which has been clinging to life in Bermuda, have now been stored at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the Norweg...
DATE: Oct 18, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Hundreds of volunteers cleared up around 12,000lbs of trash from the island’s coast as part of a Keep Bermuda Beautiful drive to protect the marine environment.
The EY Coastal Cleanup, which attracted a total of 680 volunteers — 200 more than in prev...
DATE: Oct 04, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art is holding a fundraising event as it prepares to make environmentally friendly changes to its headquarters.
The museum is switching to LED lighting and installing solar panels on its roof and floor to reduce electric...
DATE: Oct 02, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
News Staff