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This Hawaiian Fishpond Is Nearly Restored. All That’s Missing Is Fresh Water Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

This Hawaiian Fishpond Is Nearly Restored. All That’s Missing Is Fresh Water

The Heʻeia Fishpond relies on fresh water to create the right conditions to raise fish for the community, but the stream that feeds into it was diverted 85 years ago.

The Fight Over The Future Of East Maui Water Returns To The State Land Board Marina Riker/Civil Beat/2022

The Fight Over The Future Of East Maui Water Returns To The State Land Board

The battle over who controls one of the island’s major water sources — a foreign company or a county board — appears headed to a contested case hearing.

How Overhauling A Big Island Sewer Plant Is Energizing A Long-Stalled Park David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024

How Overhauling A Big Island Sewer Plant Is Energizing A Long-Stalled Park

A lawsuit over a controversial wastewater system in Kona may finally lead to development of a new regional park.

Maui Is Deploying Water Tanks Around The Island To Help Fight Fires Erin Nolan/Civil Beat/2025

Maui Is Deploying Water Tanks Around The Island To Help Fight Fires

The tanks hold thousands of gallons of water so firefighters have a ready supply, especially in dryer and harder to reach areas.

EV Use Has Skyrocketed In Hawaiʻi. Why Is It So Hard To Find A Charger? Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

EV Use Has Skyrocketed In Hawaiʻi. Why Is It So Hard To Find A Charger?

As federal incentives for electric vehicles are drying up, will the state still expand its fledgling charging network?

Another Destructive Beetle Is Spreading, Killing Hawaiʻi’s Trees Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Another Destructive Beetle Is Spreading, Killing Hawaiʻi’s Trees

Big Island farmers want the state to tackle the Queensland longhorn beetle before it spreads to the rest of the state and wreaks havoc like the coconut rhinoceros beetle.

Deep-Sea Mining Risks Disrupting The Marine Food Web, Study Warns Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat/2024

Deep-Sea Mining Risks Disrupting The Marine Food Web, Study Warns

University of Hawaiʻi researchers found that mining waste could affect anything from tiny shrimp smaller than an inch long to fish 2 inches long.

Green Sea Turtles Have Rebounded. Should Hawaiians Be Able To Eat Them? Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat/2012

Green Sea Turtles Have Rebounded. Should Hawaiians Be Able To Eat Them?

The honu has recovered from the brink of extinction, prompting some to ask if it’s time to give Native Hawaiians the right to resume traditional harvesting.

Hawaiʻi Needs More Firebreaks. Maui Is Making It Happen Courtesy: Lance Desilva

Hawaiʻi Needs More Firebreaks. Maui Is Making It Happen

Collaboration has been critical in making progress on a key component of fire safety in communities across the county.

A Deep Well May Bring Kunia Village’s Toxic Water Legacy To An End Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

A Deep Well May Bring Kunia Village’s Toxic Water Legacy To An End

The former Del Monte pineapple plantation camp’s water sources have been tainted by forever chemicals and crop fumigants.