Everyone wants to throw away their trash, but no one wants a landfill in their backyard. Yet dumps across the state are rapidly filling up.

While the Amazon rainforest burns to make room for monocrop agriculture, some people in the Pacific are betting the farm on agroforestry.

Civil Beat is sending water testing kits to households across Hawaii. Let us know if you’re worried about your tap water and you could be featured on our podcast.

We answer reader-submitted questions about man-of-war invasions, carbon offsets, Zika outbreaks and an inter-island ferry system.

The amount of microplastics washing up on Hawaiian beaches is expected to double by 2030.

Some iconic surf breaks could be completely eliminated while others will see bigger waves than ever before.

Oahu’s waste-to-power facility has a hidden carbon cost, but is it better than shipping all our recyclables off-island?

Hawaii is unlikely to get a recycling facility anytime soon, so your soda cans and water bottles must travel thousands of miles to be recycled.

Hint: It’s not enough to look for a “reef-friendly” label on sunscreens.

Civil Beat follows an Ala Moana resident looking for ways to help with climate change in the first episode of “Are We Doomed? And Other Burning Environmental Questions.”

Claire Caulfield will tackle reader questions about the environment for Civil Beat’s newest podcast.

You could be featured in our new podcast: “Are We Doomed? And other burning environmental questions.”