The Navy has clearly and brazenly broken the law in its push to carry out undersea warfare exercises in Hawai`i. Without question, it violated the National Environmental Policy Act when it released the first environmental assessment for the exercises in … Continued
The Navy’s use of high-intensity sonar has been challenged in several court cases, including three that recently came before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Oral arguments for one of the cases will be made this month before the … Continued
The best chance most of us have to see a Cuvier’s beaked whale is if it is in trouble. The species (Ziphius cavirostris) was scientifically described only in 1823, and even then, the description was made on the basis of … Continued
Relations between conservationists wanting to reduce the introduction and spread of invasive plants, on the one hand, and advocates of horticulture, on the other, have not always been smooth. But a workshop held during the July Hawai`i Conservation Alliance’s annual … Continued
“The new green is blue,” says Sylvia Earle, the pioneering marine researcher who was a plenary speaker at this year’s Hawai`i Conservation Conference. And with a theme of Island Ecosystems: The Year of the Reef, the conference, held last July … Continued
Land Board Raps Mo`omomi Hui for Unpermitted Shoreline Slab “No treat me like one criminal. No treat me like I did something wrong…. I did something that is good for the community. And I think I better stop myself before … Continued
A Watershed Achievement: On August 28, the state Commission on Water Resource Management adopted the 2008 Water Resources Protection Plan, which is perhaps the most important of the six plans that collectively make up the Hawai`i Water Plan as it … Continued
The hearing began on a gray, rainy September morning that brightened as the day unfolded. From their seats in the Haiku Community Center, members of the state Commission on Water Resource Management faced a sea of some 200 people, some … Continued
Here are the interim instream flow standards approved by the Water Commission for six East Maui streams: Honopou: A minimum flow of 2 cubic feet per second (1.29 mgd) at the 383 ft. elevation of lower Honopou Stream is intended … Continued
Neil Reimer, head of the state Department of Agriculture’s Plant Pest Control Branch, is confident that his staff’s emergency efforts over the past few months have halted the spread of Varroa destructor, a parasitic bee mite, on the island of … Continued