Marcel Honore

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.

A new two-year research project found the balls not only were ineffective, they might make water quality worse. Supporters of the effort don't believe it.

A new county measure outlawing cat feeding on the Big Island is expected to become law this week, pitting feral cat advocates against politicians.

Ship passengers will soon to start paying the same visitor tax as hotel guests to help cover the conservation fee — unless the cruise lines can stop it in court.

Conservationists scored an early court victory, but a larger decision looms on whether the fishing opened up under Trump can continue.

A new report finds that efforts to protect the dolphins are not working. Experts blame both fishing vessels and NOAA.

Suit estimates it is costing $1.2 billion for the Board of Water Supply to clean up and protect Oʻahu's drinking water wells.

Magnetic detection can only go so far in an island chain made of volcanic rock. Experts say other methods could be a game-changer.

A Hawaiʻi vacation will cost you more in the near future thanks to a new "green fee" that the governor signed into law today.

The fishing has resumed in the deep ocean waters that were designated off-limits over a decade ago.

The federal government will no longer track the nation's costliest natural disasters. A local solution can fill some of the need here — if its funding holds out.

Legislators passed a historic new green fee. They also kicked some of Hawaiʻi's most daunting environmental challenges down the road.

If passed, the first-of-its-kind fee would raise millions of dollars annually to protect the state's natural resources and make it more resilient to climate change.

Members of the Trump administration signaled that Papahānaumokuākea, the protected area around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, could be next.

Observatory leaders have assured local emergency officials their public service will continue, but questions linger about how and where that work will happen.

The NOAA office in Hilo that supports that carbon dioxide sampling has been flagged for a possible lease cancellation.

Workers who had hoped to spend their careers supporting these at-risk local species have been let go. Now, who might take over remains up in the air.

The Honolulu community group says it's providing a critical public service neglected by the city, but Kuilei Cliffs also brushes off city instructions that it says are unreasonable.

A new community group is suing to invalidate Gov. Josh Green’s controversial pick to serve as the cultural expert on the state’s pivotal water resources board, following months of frustration from local conservationists and taro farmers over how that nomination process was handled.  That group, dubbed Hui Kānāwai ʻOiaʻiʻo, argues that Green bypassed the legal […]

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