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Trump Lifts Commercial Fishing Ban On Key Protected Area In Central Pacific Courtesy: Kydd Pollock/TNC

Trump Lifts Commercial Fishing Ban On Key Protected Area In Central Pacific

Members of the Trump administration signaled that Papahānaumokuākea, the protected area around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, could be next.

Hawaiian Ocean View Has Abandoned Cars As Far As The Eye Can See Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Hawaiian Ocean View Has Abandoned Cars As Far As The Eye Can See

Staff turnover at Hawaiʻi County has stalled the use of new measures meant to penalize property owners with illegal junkyards and derelict cars.

Hawaiʻi’s Bird-Saving Bid To Release Mosquitos Gets A 2nd Green Light Courtesy: Bret Nainoa Mossman/MFBRP

Hawaiʻi’s Bird-Saving Bid To Release Mosquitos Gets A 2nd Green Light

The island’s native bird population has been battered by avian malaria, which the state hopes to resolve with a form of birth control.

Data Dive: Worries About Climate Change Spiked On Maui  After 2023 Fires Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat/2023

Data Dive: Worries About Climate Change Spiked On Maui After 2023 Fires

Residents of Kauaʻi County were the least likely to feel that global warming had — or might one day — impact them personally.

West Hawaiʻi Needs More Water. But At What Cost? Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

West Hawaiʻi Needs More Water. But At What Cost?

The battle over a single Kona well site shows the tension between development and protected Indigenous water rights.

Hawaiʻi Lawmakers Propose New Effort To Map Ancient Fishponds (Sarah Tomita/Civil Beat/2025)

Hawaiʻi Lawmakers Propose New Effort To Map Ancient Fishponds

Nonprofits would create a database of fishponds to help kickstart restoration efforts

What ‘The World’s Loneliest Whale’ May Be Telling Us About Climate Change Gerard Soury/Getty Images via Grist

What ‘The World’s Loneliest Whale’ May Be Telling Us About Climate Change

There have only been about 30 whale generations since whaling largely ceased. Researchers may need twice that long to uncover what is happening.

Deep-Sea Mining Threatens Sea Life In A Way No One Is Thinking About Courtesy: NOAA

Deep-Sea Mining Threatens Sea Life In A Way No One Is Thinking About

The extraction process involves dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone.

Maui County Faces Huge Funding Gap For Wildfire Recovery, Draft Plan Shows David Croxford/Civil Beat/2025

Maui County Faces Huge Funding Gap For Wildfire Recovery, Draft Plan Shows

The county is hosting public meetings on the plan starting Saturday. Billions of dollars from other funding sources must be identified to achieve long-term goals.