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Island companies yesterday displayed their green credentials in advance of Earth Day tomorrow. Secure document destruction firm Guardian said it had sent more than 3.2 million pounds of paper for recycling since it opened up shop in 2005. The firm sa...

A government department dedicated to ensuring the island’s sustainability has been dismantled, leading green campaigners to fear that environmental issues are not a priority. The Sustainable Development Department was formed to put into action the Su...

Sir Richard Branson’s Necker Island head chef Chris Kenny snagged the top prize at the celebrity chef 11th Hour Racing Lionfish Throwdown with a trio of sustainable dishes. He beat competition from five top chefs from the 35th America’s Cup team nat...

Dear Sir, I would be grateful if you would publish my observations concerning a recent occurrence. On April 4, Progressive Labour Party MP Diallo Rabain issued a statement indicating that he found the Rubis leak “very troubling”, as it was a “great c...

The underwater war being waged on Bermuda’s lionfish took a giant leap forward yesterday morning as a prototype submersible robot caught one of the invasive predators via remote access. A hefty team of scientists, conservationists and roboticists ga...

Dear Sir, We, the executive of the Neighbourhood Watch group bounded by Dunscombe Hill to the west and Vaucrosson’s Lane to the east, and from North Shore Road south to Mount Hill, wish to publicly express our sincere thanks to the Chewstick Foundati...

A satellite transmitter crucial to the Bermuda Turtle Project has been found by a reef diver in the Bahamas. The equipment was used to chart the progress of Hardy, a green turtle who swam 1,000 miles from Bermuda to the Caribbean country last year. I...

A local landscaping company will provide free services to assist in the management of the nature reserve in Paget. The Bermuda Audubon Society said that Horsfield Landscaping & Design Ltd will be assisting in the upkeep of the Alfred Blackburn Smith...

A gas leak at the Rubis facility in St George’s last month was not promptly reported and will require more equipment and personnel to clean up, a ministry representative has confirmed. In a statement released yesterday, a spokesperson for the Depart...

Dear Sir, Did anyone who read Diallo Rabain’s statement yesterday on the Rubis fuel leak think there was more politics to it than real concern for the environment? I have been following reports since the leak was first reported and believe Rubis, wit...

Hidden beneath the grass, soil and layers of sand dredged from the Flatts Inlet lies the remnants of Eve’s Pond. The Hamilton Parish pond was filled in the 1920s with dredged material that was pumped to the site by pipeline and few of the residents l...

Conservationist David Wingate has overseen every pond restoration and creation project to have taken place in Bermuda over the past half-century. Most have involved the restoration of natural ponds that were filled in with garbage and rubble during t...