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Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano Erupts on the Big Island

Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano Erupts on the Big Island

Kilauea, a large volcano on the Island of Hawai’i (or Big Island) and one of the most active in the world, erupted Sunday night following a series of earthquakes, CNN reported. The eruption sent lava shooting into the air, along with a huge cloud of ash and steam. Hawaiian officials urged residents to stay indoors […]

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    We Ignore Thousands of Threatened Plant Species at Our Own Peril

    We Ignore Thousands of Threatened Plant Species at Our Own Peril

    By Lorraine Chow Kokia drynarioides is a small but significant flowering tree endemic to Hawaii’s dry forests. Native Hawaiians used its large, scarlet flowers to make lei. Its sap was used as dye for ropes and nets. Its bark was used medicinally to treat thrush. But Kokia drynarioides — commonly known as Hawaii tree cotton, […]

    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 […]

    Water Found in Hawaiian Volcano Could Lead to Eruptions

    Water Found in Hawaiian Volcano Could Lead to Eruptions

    Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano could be gearing up for an eruption after a pond of water was discovered inside its summit crater for the first time in recorded history, according to the AP. Last year, the volcano spewed lava and destroyed homes on the archipelago’s Big Island. Then in the spring, a lava lake vanished from […]

    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 […]

    U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Hawaii Clean Water Act Case

    U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Hawaii Clean Water Act Case

    In a case watched closely both by polluting industries and clean water advocates across the nation, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take up an appeal of a Clean Water Act case out of Hawaii concerning treated sewage flowing into the Pacific Ocean from injection wells. Last March, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals […]

    Did Hawaii Just Receive Its Lowest Snowfall Ever?

    Did Hawaii Just Receive Its Lowest Snowfall Ever?

    A damaging storm pummeled the Hawaiian islands over the weekend, downing trees and power lines, raising 60-foot-waves, and potentially breaking records for wind speed, low temperatures and snowfall. And scientists say this is exactly the kind of extreme weather event made more likely by climate change. “There’s no place on the planet where (people) can […]