33 results returned for search: "http AND " category "Environment"
A floating rubbish bin will help keep the marina at Hamilton Princess and Beach Club free of litter, thanks to Butterfield Bank.
The Bermuda-based bank and trust company has joined the Seabin Global Pilot Programmes and will install a pre-series V5 ...
DATE: Apr 05, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Florida-based researchers have tracked tiger sharks tagged in Bermudian waters travelling more than 40,000 kilometres in a recent research paper.
Choy Aming, who co-authored the paper along with the late Neil Burnie and several international research...
DATE: Jun 11, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A petition calling for Somerset Long Bay in Sandys to be made into a turtle sanctuary has attracted more than 450 signatures.
Directed at the newly installed Minister for the Environment, Jeanne Atherden, the petition is now just 30 signatures short ...
DATE: Jun 23, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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Five years ago a charred cedar tree root was found 53 feet below the ocean surface, some nine miles north of the Island as it is today. It is evidence of what the 250 square mile Bermuda archipelago looked like some 8,000 years ago — a benchmark for ...
DATE: Jun 20, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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Turtles that were tagged in Bermuda nearly two decades ago have been spotted in Central America.
Three turtles tagged in the 1990s by the Bermuda Turtle Project (BTP) were found nesting on the beaches of Costa Rica and Mexico, each having the same ti...
DATE: Jun 20, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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The water off Bermuda’s beaches remain clean, Government said last night.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Health said that regular monitoring at beaches so far this year had found no pollution problems.
Beaches checked include tourist magnets lik...
DATE: Jun 07, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
It’s six fifteen in the morning; dawn now sweeps gently across a chain of reefs stretching Northeast toward Wreck Hill in Somerset. Ten yards from the boat a turtle breaks the ocean surface, letting out a wet sneeze as it takes in a new breath before...
DATE: Jun 06, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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An online pettion has been started calling for the establishing of a turtle sanctuary in the Somerset Long Bay area.
Specifically, the petition is calling for newly appointed Minister of the Environment Jeanne Atherden to “institute a no wake and no ...
DATE: May 29, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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Vehicle emissions and other pollutants are partly to blame for falling amphibian numbers in Bermuda, according to an expert.
Jamie Bacon, a research associate with the Bermuda Zoological Society, told The Royal Gazette that emissions from cars, bikes...
DATE: May 13, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A global online activist network has launched a campaign to get the Bermuda Government to implement the “Blue Halo” proposal to turn the sea around the Island into a protected environmental zone.
Avaaz.org says on its website: “Bermuda is on the verg...
DATE: Apr 23, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
