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Hawaiʻi Will Soon Be Home To The World’s Biggest Land-Based Seaweed Farm

Hawaiʻi Will Soon Be Home To The World’s Biggest Land-Based Seaweed Farm

Ag tech company Symbrosia is scaling up production of its feed supplements for more environmentally friendly livestock production.

Can This Tree Still Save Us? In Some Places It’s Barely Hanging On (Thomas Heaton/Civil Beat/2025)

Can This Tree Still Save Us? In Some Places It’s Barely Hanging On

ʻUlu, bia, uru, mā: Breadfruit has been lauded as a climate-resilient solution to world food security. That’s not proving true in the Marshall Islands, where some have relied on it for centuries.

Use It Or Lose It? Kauaʻi Wants Robinson Resort Land Back To Agriculture Craig Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Use It Or Lose It? Kauaʻi Wants Robinson Resort Land Back To Agriculture

Developers have failed to start construction on the 250-room project for the past two decades.

Hawaiʻi DOE Starts Year With Unprecedented School Meal Shortages Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Hawaiʻi DOE Starts Year With Unprecedented School Meal Shortages

The cafeteria managers’ union is concerned the shortages will discourage students from purchasing meals and lead to possible cuts to school lunch staff.

Immigration Raids Throw Long Shadow Over Big Island Coffee Harvest Jeremy Hay/Civil Beat/2025

Immigration Raids Throw Long Shadow Over Big Island Coffee Harvest

As their workers are arrested and deported, flee the country or stay away, coffee farmers are struggling to bring in a bumper crop.

Molokaʻi Residents Fight To Keep Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle Off Their Island Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024

Molokaʻi Residents Fight To Keep Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle Off Their Island

As the invasive pest shows up on all the other Main Hawaiian Islands, residents of Molokaʻi say the state is not doing enough to ensure they don’t meet the same fate.

East Honolulu’s Last Undeveloped Valley Faces Uncertain Fate Hawaiʻi State Archives

East Honolulu’s Last Undeveloped Valley Faces Uncertain Fate

Kamehameha Schools has yet to release its plan for Kamilonui Valley. But the school’s history of development in the area is stoking fears about what will happen to Hawaiʻi Kai’s last farmlands.

With Wild Fish Stocks Dwindling, Congress Considers Backing Aquaculture Courtesy: Jeff Milisen/Ocean Era

With Wild Fish Stocks Dwindling, Congress Considers Backing Aquaculture

After years of fish farmers criticizing the state of Hawaiʻi for overlooking aquaculture, the federal government is offering some hope in new legislation.

As Mainland Egg Prices Drop, Waialua Fresh Eggs Invests In Hawaiʻi Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

As Mainland Egg Prices Drop, Waialua Fresh Eggs Invests In Hawaiʻi

When migratory birds take flight, experts say that could prompt a resurgence in bird flu cases across the country, again spiking prices.

State Boards Must Release Records Showing Hiring Decisions, Judge Says Office of the Auditor

State Boards Must Release Records Showing Hiring Decisions, Judge Says

Newly released executive session minutes finally let the public see why the Agribusiness Development Corp. hired Wendy Gady to run the controversial organization.