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Local

EPA worker fired after requiring microplastics monitoring on Hawaii firm’s project

Planting back the shade

Hawaiʻi Must Build Smarter After The Floods — With Trees As Infrastructure

County Agriculture Department workshops will help prep for grant application period June 22-July 22

Maunakea, Pōhakuloa, and the Word They Keep Using

New Haleiwa agriculture park helps immigrants, refugees start farm businesses

Hawaiʻi Can Do Better: Rejecting A Militarist Future

Chad Blair: Can The Green Party Turn Hawaii Greener?

New Hawaii law targets corporate influence in politics after Citizens United ruling

Bill signed! Hawaii just became the first state to make Citizens United irrelevant

ILWU Local 142 endorses Green Party Candidate Pāʻele Kiakona for state House

National

Sherrill Administration Announces Statewide Housing Resources Ensure No Veteran Has to Go Homeless

Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3%

Tied in knots by medical debt. Working to undo the damage in NC.

Former NOAA Employees Revive Climate Site Shut by Trump Administration

More people are going hungry now than at the height of the pandemic

Pennsylvania farmer turns down $15 million to prevent his farmland from becoming a data center

Nashville Zoo challenges construction of a data center right next to it

2027 NDAA Provision Seeks Sweeping US-Israel Defense Tech Integration

Spraying the National Forests

International

World’s Fourth ‘Therapeutic Forest’ Certified In Portugal

Conservation efforts help an endangered dipterocarp spread roots in Bangladesh

Solar power was Portugal's main source of electricity in July – a first for the country

The workforce of elderly women recycling what Vietnam throws away

Lessons from Indonesia’s 10-year journey towards universal health coverage

The Reef Effect: How Offshore Wind Benefits Marine LifeThe Reef Effect: How Offshore Wind Benefits Marine Life

APOPO: 100 Million Square Meters Cleared of Landmines

Young community leaders earn trust through action across grassroots

How Ugandan coffee farmers are defying drought thanks to regenerative agriculture

From Rotten Tomatoes to AI: Ugandan Commonwealth Youth Award Winner Takes Aim at Hunger Across Africa

Urban trees aren’t just nice, scientists say — they’re mandatory

Seagrass restoration aims to restore key habitat

Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights

Solar-powered fridges are boosting farmers’ incomes by 50% while cutting food waste

Six marine sanctuaries recognized as Blue Parks, four of them in Africa

Mozambique completes first white rhino breeding population in decades

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest

A solar-powered rubbish-eating boat? The vessel chomping plastic waste out of the sea

Global mangrove forests rebound, offering hopeful sign for climate and coastal resilience

The world just gained a marine protected area the size of France

We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way

Trees and greenery can cool cities by as much as 18°C

Blossoming among spoil heaps: how 1,000 years of lead mining gave birth to banks of pansies and pennycress

Scientists race to collect the last seeds from a critically endangered tree before it goes extinct

A rare ancient rainforest set to come back to life