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"Soot from yacht released in Hamilton Harbour"

A technical problem onboard visiting luxury yacht Mirabella V caused soot to be released into Hamilton Harbour this week. The vessel was moored off the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club at the time. A Government spokesman described the soot as “non-toxic”, an...
Jul 06, 2011
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"Groupers enjoy lionfish, but maybe not here "

A report suggesting native fish could deal with the Island’s growing lionfish problem isn’t likely to bear out in Bermuda, according to an expert. Coral scientists from the group Future of Reefs in a Changing Environment (Force) said groupers in Baha...
Jul 06, 2011
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"Sooty flotsam ‘no cause for concern’"

Sooty flotsam in Hamilton Harbour is not a cause for concern, according environmental experts who said it was due to a technical problem on board a yacht. The Department of Environmental Protection said the problem onboard the super-yacht Mirabella V...
Jul 05, 2011
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"Professor to give lecture on microbes in Bermuda waters"

They’ll never be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, in fact, it’s doubtful they could ever leap a grain of rice, but microbes in the ocean are being billed as the planet’s superheroes by a visiting microbial oceanographer. Dr Craig Carls...
Jul 04, 2011
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"Information on the Humpback whale to be shared with the US"

Government plans to share information on the migration patterns of Humpback whales with specialists in the US, it was announced today. The Department of Environmental Protection signed a letter of intent with the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanc...
Jun 30, 2011
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"Appeal to help protect turtles"

This is the shocking image of a young turtle which had swallowed a fisherman's hook and line — putting its life in danger. According to the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum & Zoo (BAMZ) last month, a concerned member of the public took a juvenile green turtl...
Jun 30, 2011
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"There’s a gorilla in our midst ...."

Customs probably aren’t going to like this very much, but a group of visiting gorilla doctors from the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project (MGVP), here to give a lecture for the Bermuda Zoological Society, might have brought along a 6ft tall mountain...
Jun 29, 2011
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"‘Father of the Year’ award goes to...a bluebird"

Father’s Day may have passed, but the Bermuda Audubon Society is honouring one dad who has gone above and beyond for his brood. Society president Andrew Dobson has given the title of ‘Father of the Year’ to a special male bluebird who took over the m...
Jun 24, 2011
Young Observer

"Our good deed cleaning up Bermuda"

Being a community is all about being nice, good, kind and a good neighbour. Being a Bermudian is cool, but being a bad community member is not right. The first step to cleaning up the world is to start in your own country. Then, if you go away you c...
Jun 23, 2011
Letters to the Editor

"Clarifying comment"

June 13, 2011 Dear Sir, I write with reference to my comments regarding the Tynes Bay Waste Management Facility which were printed in the June 13 edition of The Royal Gazette. I am quoted as commenting that "a third stream would allow extra burning ...
Jun 17, 2011
Environment

"Serenity returns after sweat and hard work"

After two years of “sweat and hard work” HSBC Bermuda will tomorrow open more acreage of Cooper's Island Nature Reserve to the public. Bank CEO Phil Butterfield spoke yesterday on what he called the opening of an “absolutely outstanding piece of pro...
Jun 17, 2011
Environment

"Call for the public to help preserve restricted shipwreck zone"

A concerned resident who claims he saw two men fishing near the Vixen shipwreck is calling on the public to preserve the protected area. The man, who asked not to be named, said he was on a tour boat around 7pm when he saw locals catching fish in th...
Jun 14, 2011
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