The Energy Costs Of Caching Carbon The treatise on carbon dioxide sequestration in the September cover article of Environment Hawai`i is a heroic effort, based on what the scientists and the environmentalists have propounded. However, I have found missing from … Continued
Land Board Seeks to Develop Policy On Undersea Communication Cables The Wai`anae coast is already home to O`ahu’s main power plant and major landfills. In the last decade, its shores have been littered with underwater cables, and according to Wai`anae … Continued
Environmental Entrepreneurs Last fall, Kailua residents who walk the crescent-shaped trail around Kawainui Marsh might have noticed the changes. Small islands of paper bark and octopus trees interspersed through the cattails and bulrushes were disappearing, and green space along the … Continued
The meeting of the Society of Conservation Biology in Hilo last summer was a veritable feast for science junkies and journalists interested in the latest research on issues relating to Hawai`i’s troubled native species. Our reporting on some of the … Continued
Walk Softly and Hear the Valley Sing As I kayak on the north coast of Hawai`i, I glimpse a rocky point over the crests of waves. Then I drop into the trough where I must paddle, paddle. The froth mingles … Continued
Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park is a big place — nearly 350 square miles. But the already expansive park may grow by nearly 50 percent if the National Park Service can round up the funds to purchase a major chunk of … Continued
After spending hours hauling hau branches into a pile, I look up through a hole in the canopy that others have made with machetes and pruners. Sunlight streams through the opening and lands on the stone wall of an ancient … Continued