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“Educating tomorrow’s environmentalists,” is the mission of the Bermuda Zoological Society, and while impassioning and empowering students to protect and conserve the environment is important, it is equally important to the BZS to educate adults — es...

A host of students were honoured yesterday for their filmmaking talent and environmental mindset as part of the fourth annual Earth Day Video Competition. More than thirty students from six schools entered the contest, organised by the Bermuda Nation...

Students from Victor Scott Primary School joined Premier Michael Dunkley, Health, Seniors and Environment Minister Jeanne Atherden and Education Minister Wayne Scott in planting a Bermuda Cedar tree yesterday to mark Earth Day. The tree planting took...

The Island’s waste recycling service will continue “as far as we know”, according to Waste Management’s education and enforcement officer, Vanese Gordon. But recycling is doomed to remain a money-losing enterprise, especially for an Island jurisdicti...

Students are being offered the chance to learn about the Island’s marine environment from world-class South African free diver Hanli Prinsloo. She is taking part in the upcoming Kids on the Reef programme, in which middle school pupils practice skil...

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...

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...

Youngsters at Victor Scott Primary are making a big difference by finding ways to reduce the amount of trash being thrown out, and switching off lights and air conditioning when rooms are not in use to save electricity. “We’re using 1,000 kilowatts p...

Lower electricity bills, less trash being thrown out and the school’s garden benefiting from plentiful rich compost are some of the tangible results West Pembroke Primary is reaping thanks to a proactive green initiative that started at the end of la...

Environmentalists have voiced concerns after MPs backed amendments to a law aimed at protecting the Island’s wildlife. The changes will allow the destruction of habitats of protected species — but only if alternative homes or captive breeding can be...