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Feds: Hawaiian Hawk No Longer Endangered Courtesy: U.S. FWS

Feds: Hawaiian Hawk No Longer Endangered

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has removed the ‘io from the list of endangered or threatened species.

Are Food Forests The Future of Agriculture? Claire Caulfield/Civil Beat/2019

Are Food Forests The Future of Agriculture?

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

Kaneohe Cemetery Expansion Threatens Rare Damselfly Courtesy: Nate Yuen

Kaneohe Cemetery Expansion Threatens Rare Damselfly

State officials will decide at a hearing that starts next month if the developer’s mitigation plan adequately protects this endangered species.

Statistic Of The Decade: The Massive Deforestation Of The Amazon Courtesy: NASA LBA-ECO Project

Statistic Of The Decade: The Massive Deforestation Of The Amazon

Right now, every minute, over three football fields of Amazon rainforest are being lost.

How A Nuclear Waste Site 2,800 Miles Away Became A Hawaii Priority Tamara Greenstone Alefaio

How A Nuclear Waste Site 2,800 Miles Away Became A Hawaii Priority

The Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands is cracked and in danger of spilling its radioactive contents into the Pacific Ocean.

Six Hawaii Companies Cited For Air Pollution Violations Anthony Quintano/Civil Beat

Six Hawaii Companies Cited For Air Pollution Violations

Six Hawaii companies — half of which are electric companies — were fined for violating emission standards.

Hawaii 2040: What We Learned About Climate Change Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat

Hawaii 2040: What We Learned About Climate Change

The ambitious reporting project found myriad reasons for the public to be pessimistic about the effects of a warming planet on the islands. But also reasons for hope.

Worried About Your Tap Water? Flickr: Jose Jaf

Worried About Your Tap Water?

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.

Assessing Hawaii’s Zika Risk And Avoiding Carbon Offset Scams Via Pixabay

Assessing Hawaii’s Zika Risk And Avoiding Carbon Offset Scams

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

Driving Headlong Toward The Climate Change Cliff NASA

Driving Headlong Toward The Climate Change Cliff

Tragically, there is plenty of evidence that we’re not taking this planetary crisis seriously.