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Here's the science behind Mauna Loa's ongoing volcanic eruption

By Gabi Laske, The Conversation

A scientist who led one of the first projects to map the Hawaiian Islands’ deep volcanic plumbing explains what’s going on under the surface.

Here's what you need to know about the eruption of Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano

By Audrey McAvoy, Associated Press

Mauna Loa is spewing sulfur dioxide and other volcanic gases. They form volcanic smog, or vog, when they mix with vapor, oxygen and dust in sunlight.

Hawaii's Mauna Loa starts to erupt, spewing ash and debris

By Associated Press

Hawaii's Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano, has started to erupt for the first time in nearly four decades, prompting volcanic ash and debris to fall nearby.

More than 80 years after attack, a sailor killed at Pearl Harbor is laid to rest

By Don Babwin, Associated Press

A 21-year-old sailor is being laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery more than 80 years after he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Hawaii closes last coal-fired power plant in bid to fight climate change

By Caleb Jones, Associated Press

The last bits of ash and greenhouse gases from Hawaii's only remaining coal-fired power plant slipped into the environment this week when the state's dirtiest source of electricity burned its final pieces of fuel.

Native Hawaiians gain more authority over future of sacred mountain, astronomy site

By Audrey McAvoy, Associated Press

A new state law says Mauna Kea, a mountain sacred to Native Hawaiians, must be protected for future generations and that science must be balanced with culture and the environment.

Wildfires grow in multiple states across the West

By Associated Press

Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.

Inconsistent data masks the pandemic's toll on Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders

By Stephanie Sy, Maea Lenei Buhre, Leah Nagy

As COVID-19 swept across the United States it became clear that the virus disproportionately affected certain racial and ethnic groups. But the outsized impact of the pandemic on one community -- Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders -- has been largely…

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Pentagon to permanently shut down leaking Navy fuel tank facility in Hawaii

By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press

The Defense Department says it will permanently shut down the Navy’s massive fuel tank facility in Hawaii that leaked petroleum into Pearl Harbor’s tap water, and will remove all the fuel.

U.S. Navy to drain Hawaii tank system blamed for tainted water

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Audrey McAvoy, Associated Press

Officials say the U.S. Navy will comply with Hawaii's order to remove fuel from a massive underground storage tank facility blamed for contaminating the Navy's drinking water system.