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Essays

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  • Nearly 2,000 volunteers recently gathered at a fishpond in windward Oʻahu to completely fill in the 1.3-mile circle wall that encloses the pond. As Carrie Ching writes for HPR, give to the land and sea and the land and sea give back to you.
  • Photo and art by Carrie Ching
    Massive continents collide, the Earth’s crust crumbles and is pulled back into the mantle, melts down into magma, and is reborn in eruptions like this, building new land. Everything, including us, eventually goes back to the source to begin again, writes Carrie Ching for HPR.