Formed by underground dikes – deep walls of basalt that cut through softer volcanic rock — Makaleha Spring on Kaua`i pumps out an amazing amount of water that feeds the island’s eastern watershed. The spring is one of six known … Continued
Eat Truth to Power Kimberly Clark is a visionary. It matters not that her piercing turquoise eyes have a rare disorder that makes her legally blind. Though you would never guess the impairment on meeting her, it makes her intense … Continued
The Navy is drilling for oil at Pearl Harbor, but it’s not likely to ease the island’s energy crunch. The oil – hundreds of thousands of gallons of it – wasn’t deposited in the Cretaceous era, but dates back just … Continued
By William Meyer1 The U.S. Geological Survey has recently published the results of a study that describes a new form of ground water occurrence in Hawai`i. As described in this study, ground water in the area between Ke`anae Valley and … Continued
Miconia: The Green Cancer Spreads You know miconia if you’ve been to Tahiti. This plant, Miconia Calvescens, is also known as “velvet tree” and, to the Tahitians, the “green cancer.” On Tahiti, it thickly covers more than 60 percent of … Continued
On February 20, 2001, the board of directors of the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawai`i Authority (NELHA) held a regularly scheduled meeting. One agenda item was a letter from the Keahole Point Tenants’ Association, expressing concerns about the sequestration experiment. … Continued
Nancy Glover, who had recently stepped down from a very successful tenure as senior program officer of the Secretariat for Conservation Biology, died on July 25. Her passing has saddened everyone who knew her not only because of her warm, … Continued
Environment Hawai`i could not survive without our friends and supporters. We wish to thank publicly the following individuals and groups for their gifts over the last six months: Isabella Abbott Abundant Life Whole Foods Betty Alexander Tanya & Paul Alston … 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
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