For more than 50 years, telescopes and the needs of astronomers have dominated the summit of Mauna Kea, a mountain sacred to Native Hawaiians that's also one of the finest places in the world to study the night sky.
Space Exploration
Aug 20, 2022
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Invasive species offer a rare research opportunity, as they often colonize new environments very different to their native habitat. One such species is the Jackson's three-horned chameleon (Triocerus j. xantholophus), which ...
Evolution
May 12, 2022
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As the world sees rising ocean temperatures, it will also see more cases of coral bleaching. When corals bleach, they become more vulnerable to other stressors such as water pollution. However, many reefs harbor corals that ...
Plants & Animals
May 2, 2022
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Images of a Hawaiian monk seal being born on an Oahu beach have been captured on camera.
Plants & Animals
Apr 20, 2022
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Jennifer Kahn was doing archaeological work on the Polynesian island of Maupiti when she and her students were drafted into a fishing crew.
Archaeology
Mar 14, 2022
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The warming of the planet is taking a deadly toll on seabirds that are suffering population declines from starvation, inability to reproduce, heat waves and extreme weather.
Ecology
Dec 1, 2021
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Crashing waves and water temperature along rocky shorelines strongly influence the growth patterns of the yellowfoot limpet (Cellana sandwicensis), or ʻopihi ʻālinalina, an intertidal species endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 30, 2021
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A metal roof sits atop the burned remains of a homestead on the once-lush slopes of Hawaii's Mauna Kea—a dormant volcano and the state's tallest peak—charred cars and motorcycles strewn about as wind-whipped sand and ...
Environment
Aug 13, 2021
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An invasive species known as the yellow crazy ant has been eradicated from a remote U.S. atoll in the Pacific.
Ecology
Jun 24, 2021
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"Ghost nets" from unknown origins drift among the Pacific's currents, threatening sea creatures and littering shorelines with the entangled remains of what they kill.
Ecology
May 27, 2021
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