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Bermuda’s garbage and recycling calendar for 2016 will soon be delivered to households and mailboxes Island-wide, the Ministry of Public Works has advised. The annual publication provides information about changes to waste collection days due to pub...

Birdwatchers were treated to a rare first sighting of a new species for the Island courtesy of the Bermuda Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count. The Eurasian Marsh Harrier, a bird of prey that crossed the Atlantic to get here, was spotted on Decemb...

A seabird native to an island off the coast of Brazil was recently spotted off the coast of Bermuda, flying with a group of cahows. According to the Bermuda Audubon Society’s winter newsletter, a small group taking part in bird-banding studies on Non...

Access to Southlands has been restricted to walkers only in a bid to tackle illegal dumping. The two entrance gates to the beauty spot on South Road have been locked to prevent vehicles driving into Southlands and new signs have been erected to deter...

A pioneering conservation project to reintroduce a rare species of fern that has been extinct in the wild for more than 100 years has begun to bear fruit. The Governor Laffan’s fern was last seen growing in Bermuda in 1905 and efforts to reestablish ...

The mountain of blue bags outside the Devon Springs Recycling Centre stems from continued operational problems at the Material Recovery Facility (MRF), the Ministry of Public Works has confirmed. The unsightly pile-up of TAG (tin, aluminium and glass...

It gets bigger each year: the gathering at Elbow Beach on Christmas Day brings together thousands of revellers armed with Santa hats and coolers. Accordingly, the Coral Beach & Tennis Club is opening the Horizons property close by for free parking, a...

Three mechanics from the Ministry of Public Works are to be sent overseas for training from the manufacturers of the Island’s trash truck fleet. Trash collection has been hampered by a high rate of mechanical failures in recent months, according to t...

The Island has no pass or fail criteria in place for vehicle emissions, according to Donal Smith, the owner of Bermuda Emissions Control — the company that tests emissions as part of checks for the Transport Control Department. “I’m not trying to bea...

Environmentalist groups have welcomed the Bermuda Government’s stated aim to move towards “least cost, high quality and sustainable” electricity. This week, the Bermuda Government tabled the Electricity Bill, which will open up the Island’s power gen...

The Bermuda Audubon Society has recently released two new bird identification cards to help new birdwatchers. One card features all of Bermuda’s breeding birds with migratory land birds on the reverse side, while the second card features Bermuda’s se...

Bermuda’s clean air efforts were the subject of an address by Donal Smith, the former deputy mayor of Hamilton, at the world climate change conference in Paris. Mr Smith, the chief executive officer of Bermuda Emissions Control Ltd, described the dev...