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Two years after the devastating fires, many lack access to food, stable housing, work and healthcareMental health problems and economic hardship remain widespread among survivors of the Maui wildfire, as access to food, stable housing, work and healthc…
Kahikinui fire is 85% contained as firefighting crews battle blazes in Pacific north-west, California and the RockiesA fast-moving Hawaii brush fire fueled by fierce winds forced the evacuation of about 50 Maui residents on the opposite side of the sam…
Tax expected to generate nearly $100m annually, to be used for projects such as replacing sand on eroding beachesHawaii’s governor signed legislation that boosts a tax imposed on hotel room and vacation rental stays in order to raise money to address t…
Governor is expected to sign the ‘green fee’, which adds 0.75% levy to state’s existing tax on short-term lodgingLawmakers in Hawaii have passed first-of-its-kind legislation that will increase the state’s lodging tax to raise money for environmental p…
At a congressional hearing, one executive welcomed President Trump’s “starting gun” to begin mining. Democrats and Republicans clashed over environmental and business concerns.
Dwayne Johnson is working with investigative journalist Nick Bilton on the project, with a film in the pipeline starring Emily Blunt and Leonardo DiCaprio The actor Dwayne Johnson, who began his career as wrestler The Rock, is to co-author a nonfiction…
A neglected parcel of land was restored by volunteers and patients at a community medical center. Along the way, their health also improved.
Hilo office, with scientists and their volcano-monitoring equipment, may have lease cancelled from Doge cutsAs Hawaii’s most active volcano shot out fountains of lava on Thursday, some of them reaching as high as 700ft, scientists from the US Geologica…
Gordon Cordeiro now adjusting to life with phones after judge overturned his conviction in 1994 Maui shootingOne of the first places Gordon Cordeiro visited when a judge ordered him released after spending 30 years in prison for a killing he always mai…
Andrew Erickson and Joel Wuthnow’s article, “Why Islands Still Matter in Asia,” discusses the views of Major General Karl Ernst Haushofer, Germany’s military attaché to Japan from 1908 to 1910. They write that he regarded the “offshore island arcs of the Indo-Pacific realm as important geopolitical features providing a useful protective veil sheltering continental powers […]
Increasing the Archipelagic Defense from the Philippines to Japan was originally published on Global Security Review.