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Residents of a Smith’s neighbourhood have called for “industrialisation” of the area to be halted pending a traffic study.
Almost 60 residents of Lolly’s Well Road, Hamilton Sound Road and Manor House Condominiums have signed a petition against a pla...
DATE: May 05, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
An island-based non-life insurance group has joined forces with the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences in the battle against climate change.
Randall & Quilter’s support will be directed towards research undertaken by Bios’s Ocean Academy which since...
DATE: May 03, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A warehouse planned at Ocean View Golf Course in Devonshire is being re-advertised with a new proposed site near Barker’s Hill in the wake of objections from historians.
It had previously been proposed next to a site of historical importance in the l...
DATE: May 02, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A teenage schoolgirl led her classmates in a rally to raise awareness about climate change.
Aura Doran, 13, and other pupils from Somersfield Academy stood and chanted at the Crow Lane roundabout in Pembroke yesterday morning and held posters warning...
DATE: Apr 30, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
More than 600 volunteers with Keep Bermuda Beautiful have cleaned up 22 different locations across the island as they joined this year’s Earth Day Challenge.
KBB said Challenge participants had been encouraged to post photographs of their Earth Day ...
DATE: Apr 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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High-tech proposals for an environmentally safe alternative for burial of pets — the island’s first — are awaiting government approval.
Bermudian engineer Philip Mason told The Royal Gazette that his plans for the “eco-friendly alternative to direct ...
DATE: Apr 28, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Four dogs believed to be illegally bred were seized from a North Shore Road, Pembroke residence on Tuesday, police reported.
Officers assisted animal wardens in removing the animals, which occurred without incident, according to a police spokesman.
T...
DATE: Apr 28, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An award for best utility-scale project in the Caribbean has gone to the island’s first large solar power farm, at LF Wade International Airport.
Walter Roban, the Deputy Premier, who is in Miami attending the Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum, also a...
DATE: Apr 28, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Owners of bluebird boxes are being reminded to monitor them regularly as the nesting season is now in full flow.
The boxes are frequently taken over by house sparrows, which are known to attack Bermuda’s native bluebirds and threaten their populatio...
DATE: Apr 27, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Researchers are on the lookout for a disease that could be a threat to Bermuda’s coral population — although no cases have been spotted locally.
Robbie Smith, curator for the Natural History Museum at the Bermuda Aquarium Museum and Zoo, said stony c...
DATE: Apr 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes