Savannah Harriman-Pote
Energy & Climate Change ReporterSavannah Harriman-Pote is HPR's energy and climate change reporter. She is also the lead producer of HPR's first narrative podcast: This Is Our Hawaiʻi. Prior to that, she worked as a producer for The Conversation. She also produces Manu Minute in collaboration with the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. She was born and raised on Hawaiʻi Island, and she collects lava lamps.
Contact her at sharrimanpote@hawaiipublicradio.org.
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New research suggests that Kīlauea experienced changes below its surface leading up to its catastrophic 2018 eruption. -
New funds are open to small businesses and nonprofits seeking to install rooftop solar through the Green Energy Market Securitization program. -
Officials voted to extend the late pandemic era program that was set to expire this month. HPR's Savannah Harriman-Pote has more. -
The Trump administration is proposing several changes to the Endangered Species Act that conservationists say could have consequences for Hawaiʻi's biodiversity. -
As water temperatures rise due to climate change, Hawaiian fish ponds may offer some species a respite. -
Hawaiʻi avoided the worst impacts of a recent marine heat wave in the North Pacific. But with marine heat waves occurring more frequently, it may not be long before the next major disaster strikes Hawaiʻi's coral reefs. -
The state Consumer Advocate hired the outside consulting firm Jensen Hughes to review the KIUC's wildfire plan. According to their findings, some areas of the plan need critical improvement. -
Hāmākua on the northern coast of Hawaiʻi Island has had more than 90 fires so far this year — three times higher than average. HPR's Savannah Harriman-Pote has more. -
Hawaiʻi has more endangered plants than all other U.S. states combined. Here's a look at some of the species that are so rare they only have a single wild plant left. -
The Archipelago Research and Conservation group is partnering with the state to make a stretch of Kaumualiʻi Highway safer for Hawaiʻi's state bird. Five nēnē have been fatally hit by cars in the area since Friday.
