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A diving club took the plunge last weekend as part of a massive marine cleanup effort. A total of 15 divers from the Bermuda Sub Aqua Club, about a quarter of its membership, combed Harrington Sound to collect trash. A spokeswoman for the club said: ...

A US film and television star has visited Bermuda in a bid to highlight plastic pollution of the seas. An Instagram post on the trip has notched up more than a million views on Instagram, and attracted comments from other celebrities, including star ...

Trash usually collected on Monday will be picked up two days early because of the Labour Day holiday next week. The Ministry of Public Works advised no other waste collection will be affected by the September 2 holiday. For the Tynes Bay public drop-...

A Bermudian company is on the hunt for businesses to sponsor the battle against invasive lionfish. Atlantic Lionshare spent five years developing a remote-controlled mini-submarine to hunt lionfish in deep water, which is now being tested in Florida....

Members of the public can now buy wheelie bins for their trash and recyclables as part of a pilot programme launched by the Ministry of Public Works. The garbage bins have a capacity of 360 litres and cost $125. The 140-litre recycling bins cost $40...

Teachers have “grave concerns” about pupils and staff at an East End school contaminated by asbestos, the head of the Bermuda Union of Teachers said yesterday. Shannon James, the president of the BUT, said that the union demanded the highest standar...

The latest group of graduates to complete the Parks Department’s skills development programme were honoured this week. The programme was designed to train Bermudians aged between 19 and 25 who were interested in learning about horticulture and the l...

Free clinics to help people understand planning applications will be held every three months, the Minister of Home Affairs announced. Walter Roban said the clinics would mean the public can get advice on planning regulations outside normal office hou...

A renewable energy company has predicted it will exceed expectations with a new solar farm on a disused airport runway. Saturn Solar Bermuda 1 explained its objectives in a string of documents submitted as part of a licence application posted on the ...

An area of the Sargasso Sea is more polluted with microplastic than a notorious high pollution part of the Pacific, researchers said yesterday. The shock news came as environmental group Greenpeace revealed the results of a two- week survey of the Sa...

An international environmental group warned last night that the amount of plastic found in the Sargasso Sea off Bermuda was “much higher than expected”. Celia Ojeda-Martinez, of Greenpeace, was speaking as part of a nine-month expedition on the organ...

Shareholders of Ascendant Group Ltd have approved a takeover attempt by a Canadian utilities group. They gave overwhelming backing to the bid from Algonquin Power and Utilities Corporation, in a meeting held at the Hamilton Princess & Beach Club yest...