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Report: Hawaiʻi’s False Killer Whales Trending Toward Extinction courtesy of Robin W. Baird/Cascadia Research

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.

Beat The Heat: Civil Beat Summer Heat Survey David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024

Beat The Heat: Civil Beat Summer Heat Survey

Help us learn how Hawaiʻi residents deal with increasing temperatures.

Studies Tie Unrecognized Deaths And Health Problems To Maui Wildfire 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.

Student Scientists Are Tracking Heat Risk For Their Peers (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.

The First Ke Iki Beach Turtle Hatchlings In Four Years Head For The Waves 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.

Honolulu Leads Climate Change Legal Fight Against Fossil Fuel Companies 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.

Will Political Uncertainty Force Hawaiʻi’s Native Birds ‘Into Oblivion’? 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.

Hawaiian Petroglyphs Reemerge Thanks To Changing Tides And Shifting Sands 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.

Sea Turtle Nests Threatened On North Shore By Lights, Bonfires, Joyrides 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.