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Residents are being urged to switch their thinking and turn off the lights for an hour, later this month. The March 31 move is in support of Earth Hour, spearheaded here for the past three years by environmental group Greenrock. Acting Environment Mi...

Government is being called upon to turn its Exclusive Economic Zone into a Marine Protected Area, if it wants to protect the environment and generate revenue. Michael Fahy, Environment Shadow Minister issued a statement saying that there were a numb...

Greenrock president Judith Landsberg calls herself an enthusiastic trier of green technology, even if it doesn’t always go so well in its infancy. Her electric pedal bike is her pride and joy, but the light-emitting diodes her family once installed i...

Electricity use in commercial buildings accounts for about 40 percent of our overall electrical energy use in Bermuda. Of that amount, about 43 percent gets used by air conditioning alone. In a relatively warm climate such as ours, the challenge is ...

Pink sand. It makes Bermuda’s beaches some of the most beautiful and picturesque in the world…but what makes it pink? Although some people believe the sand’s colouration is just a trick of the eye caused by the warm glow of the setting sun, there is...

How are you helping keep Bermuda Green for the future? That’s the theme of this year’s Belco Earth Hour Essay Competition in partnership with Greenrock and Bermuda National Library. Students are encouraged to write an essay showing their efforts to m...

Bermuda is often a hotbed of scientific activity, and the Island was recently visited by the French research schooner, Tara. Tara Expeditions is a two-year, round the world journey to provide samples and data to the scientific community worldwide and...

Students are being encouraged to give a voice to an environmental issue they feel is important to the Island. Bermuda National Trust (BNT), in partnership with Greenrock, has announced the 2012 Earth Day Student Video Competition to celebrate the glo...

Proposed licencing for foreign fishing vessels stands in complete conflict with plans to preserve the ocean around Bermuda, according to Shadow Environment Minister Michael Fahy. In a statement issued over the weekend, the OBA Senator said he was ala...