Spread of Rapid `Ohi`a Death in Puna May By Hindering `Amakihi Population In 2001, Environment Hawai`i reported on research by U.S. Geological Survey entomologist Dennis LaPointe and colleague Carter Atkinson suggesting that climate change-induced temperature increases will likely shrink the habitat … Continued
Hawai`i Sierra Club Takes Aim At Kahala Hotel’s Beach Uses How much money has the Kahala Hotel & Resort made off state lands covered by a permit that restricts its usage to recreation and maintenance? Similar to resort hotels throughout … Continued
On August 15, the Honolulu City Council brought the long-delayed revision to the Ko`olau Loa Sustainable Communities Plan closer to final adoption, and a major landowner in La`ie closer to being allowed to build hundreds of new homes. The council … Continued
At its meeting last month in Busan, Korea, the Scientific Committee of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission determined for the second year in a row that the region’s bigeye tuna stock is neither overfished nor subject to … Continued
September 2018
Half an hour into the May meeting of the state Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawai`i Authority, the dozen or so board members in attendance passed around a shoebox designed to hold a pair of Bedrock sandals and a tiny … Continued
The Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawai`i Authority – NELHA – has been allowed to run on its own for some years now. It has a special fund that typically brings in around $5 million a year, most of which comes … Continued
Tenants of the state’s Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawai`i Authority are, like all other tenants of state-owned lands, expected to pay property taxes based on the assessed value of the land and improvements they occupy. In the case of many … Continued
The Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawai`i Authority (NELHA) occupies around 870 acres of ceded land on the Kona coast of the Big Island, between the Keahole airport, immediately to the north, and the town of Kailua-Kona, eight miles to … Continued
Discord Stalls Hearings on Rules For Moloka‘i Subsistence Fishing Area The volunteer group Hui Malama O Mo‘omomi has led efforts to protect and educate people about the marine resources on Moloka‘i’s North Shore since the mid-1990s, teaching hundreds of children … Continued