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Conservationists captured and released one hawksbill turtle and more than 250 green turtles as part of a research programme this year. The Bermuda Turtle Project team caught 259 green turtles and the hawksbill in a bid to monitor the population and f...

More than 2,300 pounds of trash was collected in a beach and ocean cleanup at Daniel’s Head. A discarded pedal bicycle, old shoes, rope and part of a boat’s hull were among the items found by more than 100 volunteers including schoolchildren. The eve...

A diver told how a shark bumped into him before it “took off” with his spear and the fish impaled on it. Tim Price was hunting invasive lionfish and planned to put any catch on the barbecue to serve for dinner. But a dusky shark had other ideas and c...

Boat owners got a reminder today from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources on the safe zones to discharge sewage from their vessels. Sewage is permitted overboard outside of no-discharge zones, beyond the near shore area — or greater t...

A yellow-crowned night heron spread its wings over Spittal Pond in Smith’s yesterday. The elegant birds, found across North America, were once abundant on Bermuda, but were wiped out with early settlement in the 1600s. In 1976, several of the birds ...

Environmental charity Keep Bermuda Beautiful was given a $60,000 boost from the Ministry of Public Works yesterday. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, public works minister, said the Government had committed to supporting the charity’s work with an annu...

Representatives from the United States Coast Guard are in Bermuda to assess how they could help in the event of a major oil spill. The visit stems from an agreement signed by both countries in 1976, stating that assistance could be provided by the Un...

A bridge over North Shore Road, marking the first step in a project connecting the Railway Trail across Flatts Inlet, was put in place yesterday. The three-day project is part of a labour of love between Friends of the Bermuda Railway Trail in conjun...

The apparent illegal capture of at least seven black grouper fish is under investigation by the Government’s fisheries department. A short video clip on social media shows a boat with the protected species, also known as rockfish, lying motionless on...

When Rhea Gibbons returned to Bermuda for the summer she felt she had work to do. Now she, with the assistance of other volunteers, has cleared more than a tonne of trash from the island’s coastline in a series of cleanups. Ms Gibbons said: “It was s...