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Three young Bermudians have been awarded $5,000 each to help them continue their studies.
Miguel Mejias, Kate Cooper and Kascia White are this year’s recipients of the Steinhoff/Bermuda Zoological Society Scholarship for those pursuing degrees in env...
DATE: Sep 05, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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The Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce (BEST) has expressed concern about a notice threatening the removal of a tree behind the old Magistrates’ Court building.
According to a notice published on page 33 of the August 21 edition of The Ro...
DATE: Aug 25, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Efforts to protect Bermuda’s sea turtles have suffered another blow.
Just weeks after a petition was launched to help the endangered species — following the death of a turtle hit by a jet ski — another has had its flipper amputated at the Bermuda Aqu...
DATE: Jul 25, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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A Bermudian scientist has made a presentation on the need to monitor changes in the world’s oceans to a committee which advises US president Barack Obama.
Anthony Knap, former director of Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), told The Royal Gaz...
DATE: Jul 15, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The Atlantic Conservation Partnership (ACP) and the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum, and Zoo (BAMZ) recently hosted 12 students and two professors from a Florida college as part of their Coastal Environmental Science major study abroad course.
Flagler Colle...
DATE: Jul 04, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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On the beach at the heart of Bermuda’s sewage problem, one frequent visitor was undeterred yesterday by the ‘grease balls’ that have plagued the area for more than a decade.
In the 26 years since he retired from the vaccine industry, Joe Bawduniak ha...
DATE: Jul 04, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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A member of Greenrock Bermuda joined almost 100 representatives from 60 other countries at the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) General Assembly in Copenhagen.
Abbie Caldas, manager for the Bermuda Eco-Schools programme, took part in a co...
DATE: Jul 02, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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Saltus Grammar School student Ruskin Cave has won a natural history award after attending a camp on Nonsuch Island.
Ruskin, 16, was presented with the Mervyn White Shield for achieving top marks during the camp which was run by Bermuda Audubon Societ...
DATE: Jul 02, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Thousands of US beaches have been condemned for failing to meet water safety standards — just months after Washington issued a warning to US citizens not to swim in Bermuda because of health fears.
According to a study by environmental advocacy grou...
DATE: Jul 02, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The team behind a major survey of plastic pollution in the waters around Bermuda will tonight talk about their findings.
Plastic Tides — which carried out an 11-day trip around Bermuda on paddleboards — looked at plastic pollution in the ocean.
Now t...
DATE: Jun 26, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
