Environment

The Lyon Arboretum has lost a federal grant to digitize its collection of rare Hawaiian seeds; Honolulu celebrates the Manu-o-Kū

Senate Bill 657 proposed the creation of a climate data hub within the University of Hawaiʻi’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, using $2 million in state funds to support the work of fifteen researchers affiliated with the Coastal Research Collaborative.

A measure advancing in the state Legislature aims to set a new target to significantly reduce Hawaiʻi's total energy usage by 2045.

Environmental advocate Solomon Pili Kahoʻohalahala spoke to The Conversation's Maddie Bender about ocean protections amid Trump's executive order for deep-sea mining permits.

The bone collector caterpillar lives in spiderwebs along the Waiʻanae Mountains and evades capture by encasing itself in the skeletons of the spider's victims and the spider's own shed skin. HPR's Maddie Bender has more.

Trump calls for mining the sea floor in new executive order; Scientists have discovered a new species of caterpillar in the Waiʻanae Mountains, nicknamed "the bone collector."

President Trump has called on the U.S. Department of Justice to block states from enforcing climate change laws. Richard Wallsgrove, who co-directs the UH environmental law program, believes the potential impact of the order on Hawaiʻi is uncertain.

Today on The Conversation, we're replaying interviews with filmmakers who focus on stories of the ocean.

Of the four types of doves that call Hawaiʻi home, mourning doves are the rarest. We have their calls today, courtesy of Xeno Canto.

Tariffs are impacting the local floral industry and popular Hawaiʻi fashion brands; A flock of endangered kingfishers has been introduced to Palmyra Atoll