Jun 10 Watch 1:25 Photographer uses camera to reconnect with homeless father By PBS News Hour In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, what happened when a photographer who documents the lives of Hawaii's homeless learned that her own father was living on the streets of Honolulu. Continue watching
Apr 18 Watch 1:49 Has Hawaii's solar energy industry become too popular? Viewers weigh in. By PBS News Hour Hari Sreenivasan reads viewer comments about a recent signature segment concerning Hawaii’s booming solar energy industry. Continue watching
Apr 11 Watch 8:41 Gridlocked by the power grid: Why Hawaii's solar energy industry is at a crossroads By PBS News Hour In some parts of Hawaii, where many homeowners have installed rooftop panels to capitalize on federal and state tax credits for using solar energy, the local utility company has slowed down approvals of new solar systems, saying that abundant users… Continue watching
Apr 09 Watch 4:36 Designing Hawaii schools that keep out danger and let in nature By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 05 As lava flow threatens their town, Hawaii students create DIY air purifier By Saskia de Melker For the hundreds of residents of Pahoa, located downslope from the Kilauea volcano, the last eight months have been a time of fear and uncertainty. But for students at the at the Hawaii Academy of Arts and Sciences, the lava… Continue reading
Feb 25 Photo essay: How to swim safely with sharks By Ariel Min Ocean Ramsey wants you to know that sharks are vastly misunderstood. They're scavengers, and rarely confrontational, said the biologist and scuba instructor, who has studied the animals for 15 years and leads cageless shark diving expeditions off the coast of… Continue reading
Feb 20 Watch 6:18 How poet W.S. Merwin found paradise by planting palm trees By PBS News Hour In the late 1970s, the renowned poet W.S. Merwin bought three acres of an old pineapple plantation in Hawaii -- a “paradise lost,” where little would grow due to deforestation and chemicals leftover in the soil. Little by little, he… Continue watching
Feb 15 Why can't captive breeding of saltwater aquarium fish catch on? By Sam Weber On the outdoor lot of his beachside facility, flecked with dozens of plastic bins and tanks, biologist Syd Kraul has raised several fish species from eggs to fingerlings, including tuna, snapper, and moi, a native Hawaiian fish, for more than… Continue reading
Feb 15 Watch 8:34 Hawaii's aquarium fish industry in deep water over collection controversies By PBS News Hour A proposed bill in Hawaii has ignited renewed discussion about the impact of the state's largest aquarium fishery, which catches hundreds of thousands of gem-like saltwater fish each year for shipment to collectors around the world. Supporters say the industry… Continue watching
Feb 02 Poet W. S. Merwin recites 'Rain Light' among the lush palms at his Maui home By Jeffrey Brown W. S. Merwin reads his poem "Rain Light" from his home in Hawaii. Continue reading