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Burnt-out boats are an eyesore in Warwick and could harm the environment, local residents said yesterday. The two yachts were destroyed by a fire four months ago at a private dock in Riddell’s Bay and are now stuck on rocks near the mouth of the bay....

The project co-ordinator at an environmental charity is to take over its leadership. Kim Smith will replace co-founder of the Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce Stuart Hayward as the charity celebrates its tenth anniversary. BEST was firs...

Extra acid in the world’s oceans could wreck coral reefs and fish stocks around the world, a new report has warned. The report by a German research team on the biological impact of ocean acidification (Bioacid) warned that seas absorbed extra carbon ...

A device to catch marine trash has been installed in Hamilton Harbour as part of the expanding Seabin Project. The V5 Hybrid Seabin is now in place at the Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club. Seabins are floating devices that take in ocean water, filt...

Only a quarter of a gasoline spill at a fuel depot in St George’s has been recovered seven months after the incident, government environmental watchdogs said today. And traces of the leak have spread outside the Rubis site where the accident happened...

Dear Sir, You report that the Minister of Public Works stated “... the situation has been made worse by the lack of diligence by certain landowners to do their part”. Also “... that the highways section has been challenged by lack of manpower and equ...

A successful pilot recycling programme in Dockyard could become permanent. Blue recycling bins were installed in May after the West End Development Corporation and the Department of Public Works agreed to split the costs of the initiative. Wedco’s B...

Tobacco Bay is to reopen to swimmers after levels of seawater bacteria dropped to normal. The Ministry of Health said tests over the weekend had shown bacteria levels were within acceptable limits, but that Environmental Health scientists would conti...

Radioactive material produced in Europe has been identified in the waters around Bermuda, although researchers have said the material presents very little danger. According to research by the Geotraces project, material produced by nuclear reprocessi...

Sylvan Richards, the Minister of the Environment, has opened a waste-to-energy workshop on board the Race for Water vessel. The solar, wind and hydrogen powered boat is in Bermuda on the first leg of a five-year odyssey to raise awareness and promote...

It is not unusual to be handed a bag, set of cutlery, straw and cup all made of plastic during a single lunch trip in Bermuda. The environmental group Plastic Tides is hoping to put an end to the practice and even has aspirations to see Bermuda go vi...

There are sounds most of us have grown to accept as a part of daily life: emergency sirens, the roar of a jetliner taking off, engines of all types revving up in heavy traffic, not to mention the ear-splitting vibrations coming from huge speakers at ...