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Why Mauna Kea Needs Your Protection

Why Mauna Kea Needs Your Protection

By Kaitlin Grable I was born on the island of O’ahu, 98 years after the U.S. supported an illegal coup in my hometown of Honolulu to overthrow Queen Liliuokalani and steal Hawaiian land. I was born in a Hawai’i that is radically and tragically different from the Hawai’i of my ancestors. The Hawaiian word for […]

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    Why Mauna Kea Needs Your Protection

    Why Mauna Kea Needs Your Protection

    By Kaitlin Grable I was born on the island of O’ahu, 98 years after the U.S. supported an illegal coup in my hometown of Honolulu to overthrow Queen Liliuokalani and steal Hawaiian land. I was born in a Hawai’i that is radically and tragically different from the Hawai’i of my ancestors. The Hawaiian word for […]

    Native Hawaiians Continue to Protest Plan to Build Telescope on Sacred Land

    Native Hawaiians Continue to Protest Plan to Build Telescope on Sacred Land

    By Jessica Corbett A week after construction was scheduled to resume on a long-delayed $1.4 billion telescope at the summit of Mauna Kea — a dormant volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island — thousands of Native Hawaiians who consider the mountain sacred continued to protest the planned observatory. Explaining that the 13,796-foot mountain is considered home […]

    33 Native Hawaiians Arrested Protecting Sacred Mountain From Giant Telescope

    33 Native Hawaiians Arrested Protecting Sacred Mountain From Giant Telescope

    A decade-long fight over the proposed construction of a giant telescope on a mountain considered sacred by some Native Hawaiians came to a head Wednesday when 33 elders were arrested for blocking the road to the summit, HuffPost Reported. The most recent protests kicked off Monday, when construction on the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope […]

    A Stargazer’s Guide to Protected Dark Skies

    A Stargazer’s Guide to Protected Dark Skies

    By Sabine Bergmann For millennia, human beings have gazed into the firmament and been awed by the thousands of stars, galaxies, nebulae and other cosmic wonders visible to the naked eye. But in recent generations, much of humanity has become divorced from these marvels. Today, at least 80 percent of people living in the United […]