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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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

“Sewage balls” plaguing South Shore beaches must be tackled “completely” to protect the island’s most important tourism asset, according to the Bermuda Tourism Authority. Greenrock and the Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce echoed the cal...

Executive director for Greenrock, Jonathan Starling, has called for a bottle deposit system in Bermuda which will see returned glass exchanged for cash. Mr Starling was speaking in light of the glass that was littered over Horseshoe Bay after the Cu...

“Sewage balls”, also known as “grease balls”, have again been found on at least one of the South Shore beaches — three years after a study showed that sewage outfall had created a “public health hazard”. The resulting outrage led to a Bermuda Governm...