Environment

As Native Hawaiians and residents of Hawai‘i, we take serious offense at your public attack upon a local fisherman for catching ahi....

...the impending total depletion of its trust fund....

...for causing or permitting visible fugitive dust to become airborne....

Evacuation time, 10 hours....

four bills related to land preservation, emergency medical services, small boat harbors and the Kahoolawe Island Reserve....

3 beaches (1%) had more than 20% of their samples exceed state standard(s)....

But let’s pretend we were able to stop emitting all carbon immediately...The Science and Public Policy Institute found that the global temperature would decrease by 0.17 degrees Celsius—by 2100.

If President Obama’s proposed power plant emissions controls are enacted, it will destroy utilities burning coal, hike energy costs while making zero impact on earth’s climate...

Each year, approximately one to four sperm whale carcasses drift ashore in Hawaii....

According to The Guardian, 98 percent of the 32 million displacements were due to climate change....

one model out of the 12 is consistent with the proxy-inferred patterns of the rainfall changes....

Right now there is a race to see how fast Kakaako can be sold and developed before the mainland and foreign real estate investors find out they will be stuck with enormous future expenses....

a “huge, politically inspired environmental agenda” which would impose significant costs on the industry at a time when it could least afford them....

...the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has listed three tree snail species and 35 plant species on the island cluster of Maui Nui in Hawaii as endangered ....

biomass could diminish biodiversity, over-extract water, make food more expensive and potentially increase carbon emissions....

....special use permits – with specific use conditions -- for non-commercial recreational use of kayaks, stand-up paddle boards and one-person canoes....

A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground...

Abercrombie has nominated Genevieve Salmonson to the position of interim director of the state Department of Health (DOH) Office of Environmental Quality Control, effective today....

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is proud to announce the launch of Operation Reef Defense....

Army announces the completion of the Final Environmental Impact Statement to construct and operate a modern Infantry Platoon Battle Course and associated infrastructure at Pōhakuloa....

Why would one of the state’s largest developers fund so-called anti-development groups?

On April 8, 2013, EarthJustice secured a court order to resume aerial eradication on Mauna Kea....

Climatologists have suffered numerous blows to their reputation as evidence continues to emerge about data altering and a plethora of half-truths used as propaganda....