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Goat Hunters Say State’s Aerial Shooting Threatens A Traditional Food Source Courtesy of Michael Sturm

Goat Hunters Say State’s Aerial Shooting Threatens A Traditional Food Source

Concerns over damage to vegetation have the state taking flight to cull the goat population in the Waianae mountains.

Black-Footed Albatross Chicks Take Refuge From Climate Change On Oahu Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Black-Footed Albatross Chicks Take Refuge From Climate Change On Oahu

The North Shore’s James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge now hosts 23 birds that faced threats in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Judge Delves Into Science Behind Roundup Cancer Claim Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2017

Judge Delves Into Science Behind Roundup Cancer Claim

In a lawsuit brought by hundreds against Monsanto, a hearing begins to determine if cancer claims are widely accepted.

Incinerating Trash Does Not Protect The Climate Or Reduce Waste Courtesy of the City and County of Honolulu

Incinerating Trash Does Not Protect The Climate Or Reduce Waste

It’s an unjust and unsustainable strategy, and new attempts to package incineration as renewable energy are misguided.

This Hilo Community Fears Its ‘Toxic’ Neighbors Alan McNarie/Civil Beat

This Hilo Community Fears Its ‘Toxic’ Neighbors

With a nearby airport, landfill, sewage plant, port and petroleum tanks, Hawaiian Homestead residents in Keaukaha want health concerns addressed.

EPA Settles Syngenta Pesticide Claim For Pennies On The Dollar Nick Grube/Civil Beat

EPA Settles Syngenta Pesticide Claim For Pennies On The Dollar

The GMO company will pay $150,000 instead of the $4.8 million that had been sought for exposing Kauai workers to pesticides.

Here’s How The State Could End Up Owning Your Oceanfront Property Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Here’s How The State Could End Up Owning Your Oceanfront Property

When sea level rises, a new legal opinion says, public land follows the shoreline and the state can charge property owners to access their own places.

Here’s How Climate Change Is Already Threatening Hawaii Anthony Quintano/Civil Beat

Here’s How Climate Change Is Already Threatening Hawaii

We’ve seen flooded streets and washed out beaches, but even the birds, the animals and the forests are being affected by global warming.

Crews Free Entangled Humpback Whale Near Maui AP

Crews Free Entangled Humpback Whale Near Maui

Rescue teams removed more than 285 feet of braided line that the whale was trailing off the coast of Makena Beach.

Lawmakers, Health Officials Point To Each Other For Cesspool Answers Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Lawmakers, Health Officials Point To Each Other For Cesspool Answers

Hawaii leaders have no idea what to do about an environmental problem that could cost billions of dollars to fix.