230 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Environment"
Surveillance cameras could help clamp down on illegal dumping at a public dock, a nature enthusiast said yesterday.
Jessica Riederer added that “repeat offenders” disposed of waste and that more education would make people think twice before they dis...
DATE: May 16, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Warwick Academy students now have a window on to the world of Bermuda’s threatened bluebirds, including their battles to survive.
Thanks to a hidden camera, students and staff were treated to a live feed of chicks hatching in the school’s bluebird bo...
DATE: May 08, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Researchers are checking if a rare variant of sargassum seaweed that has invaded Caribbean coastlines could make its way to Bermuda.
Robbie Smith, the curator of the Natural History Museum at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo, is working on a stud...
DATE: Apr 27, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Experts will share their knowledge on the environment to hundreds of children on the Bermuda National Trust’s annual walk at Spittal Pond tomorrow.
The Children’s Nature Walk is a chance for youngsters and their families to sample the open air and le...
DATE: Apr 03, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Removal of mould in a Pembroke school cost more than $444,000, new figures have revealed.
And renovations to the bathrooms at a Warwick school cost about $400,000.
The cost of the mould work at Dellwood Middle School and the price of new bathrooms a...
DATE: Feb 01, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A fuel firm has donated $5,000 to an ocean education programme for youngsters run by the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences.
Sol Petroleum Bermuda handed the cash to the Ocean Academy marine programme.
Kaitlin Noyes, the director of Ocean Academy, s...
DATE: Jan 14, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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Conservationists hope lionfish will be back on the menu this winter as the fifth annual Winter Lionfish Derby picks up steam.
As of Monday afternoon more than 180 lionfish had already been caught as part of this year’s derby.
A spokesman said: “It se...
DATE: Jan 08, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Staff from Dolphin Quest Bermuda have made a presentation at an international conference on marine education in Connecticut.
Sundée Faulkner, sales and outreach manager, and Kameron Burgess, marine mammal specialist, both attended the Alliance of Mar...
DATE: Dec 05, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
An environmental charity confirmed it has been forced to cut costs because of the knock-on effects of the 2008 financial crash.
Greenrock said it had taken the “difficult but necessary” decision to make the position of executive director redundant.
T...
DATE: Nov 05, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Bermuda’s “safest form of pest control” is under threat from water pollution, a researcher who has tracked the island’s cane toad population for about 20 years warned yesterday.
Jamie Bacon, the principal investigator for the Bermuda Amphibian Projec...
DATE: May 10, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell