by Kalani Kaʻanāʻanā | Feb 11, 2026
Share: On any given day in Hawaiʻi, signs of strain are visible. Trails show wear from heavy use. Reefs experience stress from warming waters and sediment runoff. Forested areas continue to face pressures from invasive species, alongside growing wildfire risk....
by Gilian Santiago, Mahealani duPont, Guest Editor: Naka Nathaniel | Jan 28, 2026
Share: WAIKŌLOA VILLAGE – Rob Lee was in a pre-meeting called by a traffic management and evacuation consulting firm based in Texas. KLD Associates needed to tell the first responders from Hawaiʻi Islandʻs police and fire departments, civil defense, the mayorʻs office...
by Noelle Fujii-Oride | Dec 17, 2025
Share: This story was co-published with Next City, a nonprofit newsroom reporting on solutions for equitable and just cities. Get Next City’s stories in your inbox. Gary Pacheco has lived in Kīlauea his entire life and has seen it grow from its sugar plantation...
by Noelle Fujii-Oride | Dec 3, 2025
Share: Every Friday afternoon, O‘ahu farmer Daniel Anthony of Hui Aloha ‘Āina Momona can be found climbing coconut trees around the Ko‘olau Range, removing old leaves and tending to green waste. He then sprays the trees with a series of nutrient-rich mixtures made...
by Noelle Fujii-Oride | Nov 19, 2025
Share: The sound of squealing pigs reverberates as Daniel Anthony points to a variety of verdant crops around his Windward O‘ahu farm, from kukui nut to milo, avocado, noni and star fruit. It’s a marked contrast to when Anthony got the land over a decade ago. It was...
by Noelle Fujii-Oride | Oct 22, 2025
Share: Exposed spaces beneath lānai, eave vents with large openings, a bit of debris in the gutters, and some guinea grass or haole koa growing a few feet away from a home don’t sound like anything out of the ordinary on Kaua‘i. But because its historic plantation...
