by Beth Holmes | Dec 20, 2021 | Environmental hazards, Resources, Sustainability
Contaminated groundwater puts thousands at risk as the U.S. Navy refuses to cease operations at a perpetually leaking fuel storage facility on water-poor Oahu. The Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility was built in the middle of WW2, inside the ridge of a dead volcano...
by Beth Holmes | Dec 6, 2021 | Climate Change, Conservation, Resources
Fungi may be a large key to understanding what can be done about the climate change we are already facing, according to researchers working on a massive project to map the fungal networks of the world. When most of us hear fungus or fungi, we think of mushrooms. But...
by Beth Holmes | Aug 23, 2021 | Conservation, Resources, Sustainability
ConocoPhillips’ large oil drilling project in Alaska has been blocked by a federal judge, after approval by both the Biden and Trump administrations. The oil drilling project by oil giant ConocoPhillips, slated for Alaska’s North Slope, would potentially...
by Beth Holmes | May 14, 2021 | Conservation, Environmental hazards, Resources
Seven percent of all renewable fresh water in the world is in Canada, twenty percent if you include sources considered non-renewable like glaciers and underground aquifers. For scale, Canada has about half of one percent of the world’s population. So there is...
by Admin | Dec 30, 2020 | Articles, Conservation, Resources, Sustainability
The koa tree, which many might know as acacia koa or Hawaiian koa, is native only to a few of the Hawaiian islands. For the tree to thrive, the elevation must be high enough to stay above the marine fog but low enough to not freeze. It needs lots of rain and ashy...
by Admin | Aug 31, 2020 | Environmental hazards, Resources
On July 25, 2020, the bulk carrier vessel Wakashio, a cargo ship from Japan and registered in Panama, was in transit from Lianyungang, China to Tubarao, Brazil, with no cargo aboard and a crew of 20. While passing close to the French-controlled island of Mauritius, in...
