HILO, Hawaii – A trash collection device that broke apart while deployed in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii arrived on the Big Island on Sunday. The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reports the 2,000-foot (600-meter) long floating boom was being towed to Hilo after its support crew discovered a structural malfunction had caused an 18-meter section […]

HONOLULU- Hawaii tour companies, hotels and airlines are pitching in more than $50,000 to keep the USS Arizona Memorial visitors’ center open during the federal government shutdown. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports the money will keep the National Park Service facility staffed, its bathrooms open and its programs running for at least another week. Pacific Historic […]

HONOLULU – Firefighters responded to a house fire in Nuuanu Sunday morning. According to the Honolulu Fire Department, crews were dispatched around 7:40 a.m. to a home on Huene Street. Some 10 units staffed with 43 personnel responded. When firefighters rushed to the scene, they found a two-story single-family home fully involved in flames. Photos […]

Climate change – arguably humanity’s most existential challenge – requires urgent global action. As the World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report 2019 will show only too clearly, environmental crises – notably a failure to tackle climate change – are among the likeliest and highest-impact risks that the world faces over the next decade. Indeed, 2018 […]

The energy in ocean waves has been increasing as a consequence of climate change Sea level rise puts coastal areas at the forefront of the impacts of climate change, but new research shows they face other climate-related threats as well. In a study published January 14 in Nature Communications, researchers report that the energy of ocean […]

Minister for Agriculture, Food, and the Marine, Michael Creed, has announced the Clean Oceans Initiative and has called for the participation of the entire Irish trawl fishing fleet in the scheme by 31st December 2019. Creed wishes to have all Irish trawlers at every pier and every port actively participate in collecting, reducing and reusing […]

The founder of Reboot Innovation, a creative studio dedicated to sustainability, argues that designers should not be focusing solely on recyclable packaging but instead on systems that encourage the public to “reuse and refill” old containers. From “single-use” being announced as Collins Dictionary’s word-of-the-year, through to nationwide public support for government action to reduce plastic waste, […]

Movements to eliminate single-use plastics are sweeping the globe. The first thing you notice when you enter Natural Weigh, Chloe and Rob Masefield’s small shop in the Welsh town of Crickhowell, is the enticing smell of food. Then you see that people have brought their own containers and bottles and are filling them with rice, […]

Heat trapped by greenhouse gases is raising ocean temperatures faster than previously thought, according to a new research which shows that earlier claims of a slowdown or “hiatus” in global warming over the past 15 years were unfounded. Ocean heating is critical marker of climate change because an estimated 93 per cent of the excess […]

You probably had a lovely shower this morning before you sat down to read the paper. Imagine if, when you turned the tap, the water that came out stank. That’s life for people in Menindee and surrounding areas right now. Politicians from every state and federal parliament should be at Menindee to experience the stench […]