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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
(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
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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.
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.
Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images via Grist
Digging For Minerals In The Pacific’s Graveyard: The $20 Trillion Fight Over Who Controls The Seabed
“The soul of our ancestors, when they leave this world, they go into the deep.”
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.