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What Toxic Legacy Did This Abandoned Sugar Mill Leave Behind? Brittany Lyte/Civil Beat/2025

What Toxic Legacy Did This Abandoned Sugar Mill Leave Behind?

The owner of the land tied to a former sugar mill wants to develop housing on the site but must make sure hazardous plantation-era remnants are cleared.

Aquarium Fishing Could Return To Hawaiʻi Under Proposed New Rules Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Aquarium Fishing Could Return To Hawaiʻi Under Proposed New Rules

The land board and DLNR staff have clashed for years over whether to let the practice continue. That might be changing.

A Storm Leveled Their School. 7 Years Later, They’re Still Waiting For Help Thomas Mangloña II

A Storm Leveled Their School. 7 Years Later, They’re Still Waiting For Help

Saipan’s Hopwood Middle School is a haunting symbol of a super typhoon’s legacy from 2018 and how Pacific cyclones, their threats growing amid climate change, can plague communities years after they pass through.

Teens Who Successfully Sued Hawaiʻi Over Climate Change Lose On Aviation David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024

Teens Who Successfully Sued Hawaiʻi Over Climate Change Lose On Aviation

The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation’s plan for electric airplanes is limited to a high-level study.

Republicans Try To Weaken Law Protecting Whales, Seals And Polar Bears AP Photo/Denis Poroy/2024

Republicans Try To Weaken Law Protecting Whales, Seals And Polar Bears

A bill in the works has support from Maine fishermen and lobbyists for big-money species such as tuna in Hawaiʻi and crab in Alaska, among others.

Can This West Hawaiʻi Coral Reef Be Saved From Sewage Runoff? Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Can This West Hawaiʻi Coral Reef Be Saved From Sewage Runoff?

Cesspools in the Kohala Coast community of Puakō have been leaking into the ocean for years. So residents came up with a plan.

Maui Plans To Redraw Its Coastal Development Lines Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat/2024

Maui Plans To Redraw Its Coastal Development Lines

The county is seeking a consultant to review its Special Management Area boundaries.

A New Plan Is Brewing In The Fight To Save O‘ahu’s North Shore Beaches David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024

A New Plan Is Brewing In The Fight To Save O‘ahu’s North Shore Beaches

University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant teams up with North Shore Community Land Trust to find solutions for the island’s disappearing beaches.

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.