Hawaii Green News

Department of the Interior has awarded the state $420,000 in grant funding to modernize the monitoring of Hawaii's volcanic sites. The money will be used to upgrade equipment and analyze data from recent eruptions. With the improvements, more reliable information...

Surf on the north facing shores could reach the 40- to 50-foot level on the outer reefs by Monday, according to the National Weather Service. However, near shore surf is usually smaller, said Jonathan Hoag, weather service forecaster. Two exceptionally...

The Army will undertake an unprecedented $2.5 million underwater robotics demonstration project beginning in October designed to remove or destroy up to 1,500 conventional munitions dumped off Pokai Bay. Tad Davis, the Army's deputy assistant secretary for the environment, safety...

In response to a petition from American Bird Conservancy and Hawaiian bird expert, Dr. Eric VanderWerf, the U.S. The report focuses on 10 species or groups of related species, as well as those being reviewed as threatened or endangered under...

Wind played havoc with power lines tonight with Thanksgiving Day outages in the Kalihi, Mapunapuna and Punahou areas. An outage affecting 2,700 customers was reported in the Punahou area about 8:30 p.m., and power was restored an hour later.

The Permaculture Group, a Maui business which distributes and promotes local goods and services, is for a third consecutive year undertaking its "Planting Christmas" native Christmas tree sale and educational campaign. Maui residents may place orders for live, potted native...

The geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre, Dr Gerard Fryer, said it was important that people took warnings seriously. "In 1953 there was an earthquake which triggered a landslide," he said. He said for an event such as the...

The Navy has halted additional coral stabilization and rubble removal at the site where the USS Port Royal ran aground in February, the U.S. Pacific Fleet announced today. The work was suspended because of high surf this summer, with a...

It's the fourth straight year that local poinsettia inventory...O'ahu farmer Bill Durston of Leilani Nursery, one of the state's largest poinsettia growers, said he's growing one-third fewer of the plants on his Waimanalo farm this year because he expects consumers...