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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

Accused monk seal harasser stays silent after federal court appearance

Native forests could help protect Honolulu from flooding

Despite the odds, homeless Waianae teen gets his high school diploma

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

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

A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart.

Voters in California City Become First in US to Approve Permanent Ban on Data Centers

Spraying the National Forests

NPR’s Climate Solutions Week

Millville bans data centers, killing largest proposed facility in New Jersey history

Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals

International

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

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

Zambia Passes Landmark Free Education Law

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

Life on the edge: Why Indonesians living near volcanoes won't leave

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

The world is installing grid batteries at a blistering pace

Meet the 18-year-old whose prize-winning invention takes on the microplastics emergency

Uncontacted Amazon tribes’ landmark legal victory puts Ecuador under growing global pressure