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Can A $400+ Million Loan Push The Stagnant Coco Palms Project Ahead? Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat/2023

Can A $400+ Million Loan Push The Stagnant Coco Palms Project Ahead?

The Kaua‘i project could reopen in 2028, after being closed for nearly four decades.

Wanted: This Anemone Is ‘One Of The Most Gnarly Aquarium Pests’ Craig Fujii/Civil Beat/2026

Wanted: This Anemone Is ‘One Of The Most Gnarly Aquarium Pests’

Left unchecked, Majano could devastate Hawaiʻi reefs. The good news: Efforts to eradicate an invasive anemone appear to be working.

Colonial-Era Coconut Farms Pose Risks To The Survival Of Pacific Atolls Ryan Green/Civil Beat/2026

Colonial-Era Coconut Farms Pose Risks To The Survival Of Pacific Atolls

The copra industry keeps remote economies afloat while also threatening to undermine the land it depends on.

Hawaiʻi’s Imperiled False Killer Whales Are Going Hungry Cascadia Research

Hawaiʻi’s Imperiled False Killer Whales Are Going Hungry

The endangered whales’ numbers are still trending in the wrong direction. Researchers just found a new piece of the puzzle as to why.

Gov. Green Saves Option To Go Green With Solar Credits In 2026 Courtesy: Blue Planet Foundation

Gov. Green Saves Option To Go Green With Solar Credits In 2026

Executive order preserves the solar energy tax credit for commercial and industrial uses that lawmakers had capped.

Scientists Fear El Niño May Be Big, Bad And Costly With Heat, Floods, Droughts, Fires Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2026

Scientists Fear El Niño May Be Big, Bad And Costly With Heat, Floods, Droughts, Fires

The U.S. East and Gulf coasts may get a break, but Hawai‘i and other islands are more in danger, climate scientists say.

Trump Reopens Protected Hawaiian Waters To Commercial Fishing Christina Jedra/Civil Beat/2023

Trump Reopens Protected Hawaiian Waters To Commercial Fishing

Dealing a blow to environmentalists, Papahānaumokuākea and two other Pacific marine monuments will be partially reopened by presidential proclamation.

Ranching Could Soon Come To An End On Moloka‘i. Paniolo Blame TB Testing Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2026

Ranching Could Soon Come To An End On Moloka‘i. Paniolo Blame TB Testing

Quarantine rules to prevent bovine tuberculosis are crippling the industry — and a way of life — on rural Hawai‘i island.

For First Time, US Is Getting More Of Its Electricity From Solar Than Coal Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat/2023

For First Time, US Is Getting More Of Its Electricity From Solar Than Coal

Solar provides more than twice the share of electricity it did five years ago.

See How Your Beach Stacks Up To Hawai‘i Water Pollution Standards Courtesy: Blue Mission

See How Your Beach Stacks Up To Hawai‘i Water Pollution Standards

Surfrider Foundation’s annual report on regular testing at 90 beaches reveals “a dismal situation.”