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Report: Hawaiʻi’s False Killer Whales Trending Toward Extinction
A new report finds that efforts to protect the dolphins are not working. Experts blame both fishing vessels and NOAA.
David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024
Beat The Heat: Civil Beat Summer Heat Survey
Help us learn how Hawaiʻi residents deal with increasing temperatures.
David Croxford/Civil Beat/2023
Studies Tie Unrecognized Deaths And Health Problems To Maui Wildfire
Researchers found that the Maui wildfires left 1 in 5 people with lung damage and half with symptoms of depression. Suicide and overdose death rates also nearly doubled.
(Leilani Combs/Civil Beat/2025)
Student Scientists Are Tracking Heat Risk For Their Peers
Students are helping with summer research to measure temperatures at Hawaiʻi’s K-12 schools and set guidelines to prevent heat-related illness.
Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat
The First Ke Iki Beach Turtle Hatchlings In Four Years Head For The Waves
The first of seven turtle nests on the North Shore beach have emerged after volunteers raised alarms about disturbance from beachgoers and houses nearby.
David Croxford/Civil Beat/2023
Honolulu Leads Climate Change Legal Fight Against Fossil Fuel Companies
The city says the companies knew for decades that their products caused global warming and profited from it. The outcome could indicate how other cases play out.
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Navy Hopes Native Hawaiian Outreach Will Help Keep Kauaʻi Missile Base Land
Comments on a draft report from the Navy and NASA are due Aug. 7.
Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025
Will Political Uncertainty Force Hawaiʻi’s Native Birds ‘Into Oblivion’?
Nonprofits are doing what they can to fill pukas left by the widespread firings, but they don’t have the resources to match those federal agencies.
AP Photo/Mengshin Lin/2025
Hawaiian Petroglyphs Reemerge Thanks To Changing Tides And Shifting Sands
It’s the first time the entire panel of 26 figures has been visible since they were spotted nine years ago. Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner Glen Kila believes it’s a message from his ancestors about rising ocean levels.
Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025
Sea Turtle Nests Threatened On North Shore By Lights, Bonfires, Joyrides
Illegal activities and failure to enforce laws are threatening honu nests at Ke Iki Beach on Oʻahu.