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UH Manoa earns top national, global rankings for academic and research excellence
Hawaii News Now
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June 20, 2025
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The University of Hawaii at Manoa continues to earn global recognition for its academics, research and faculty excellence. In the latest QS World University Rankings for 2026, UH Manoa placed in the top 2.2% worldwide,...
11 Companies Awarded Spots in $8B NAVFAC Hawaii Construction Contract
GovCon Wire
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June 20, 2025
Eleven companies were awarded positions on the U.S. Navy’s potential eight-year, $8 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple award, design-build and design-bid-build contract for new construction, repair, alteration and related...
Got to How You Can Help Scientists Study a Summertime Favorite: the Firefly article
Audubon
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Almost a decade ago, staff at the Audubon Center and Sanctuary at Francis Beidler Forest were lingering in the parking lot to debrief the night’s “Wine and Warblers” event. It was almost time to head home when the fireflies appeared. Instead of...
Navy announces $8 billion contract for Hawaii and Wake Island
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii
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June 20, 2025
1/2 Swipe or click to see more COURTESY PHOTO U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II aircraft with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 211, Marine Aircraft Group 12, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing fly over Wake Island en route to Marine Corps Air Station...
Hawaii’s new fire marshal takes over as state concludes Maui wildfire probe
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii
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June 20, 2025
The state has concluded its investigation into the government’s response to the deadly Aug. 8, 2023, Lahaina wildfire, state Attorney General Anne Lopez announced today. Responsibility for future wildfire planning and coordination will now...
Legal Considerations Concerning the End-of-Life Management of Solar, Wind, and Battery Technologies in the US
JD Supra - California
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June 19, 2025
Solar, wind, and battery technologies have, and will continue to be, front and center of the renewable energy and clean technology transition. Entities in the renewable energy and clean technology space should be closely following legal...
Scientists Investigating Small Orange Objects Coating Surface of the Moon
Futurism
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June 19, 2025
The Moon may look gray, but up close it's a whole 'nother story. Left on Bead Over half a century ago, Apollo astronauts encountered something surprising littering the desolate lunar surface: a vast number of tiny orange beads. As Universe Today...
Honolulu’s Effort to Fast-Track Affordable Housing Projects Hasn’t Worked
Honolulu Civil Beat - Hawaii
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June 19, 2025
Developers of much-needed affordable housing are supposed to get permits approved or denied within three months. It’s taking far longer. It was a simple, ambitious goal: Honolulu would approve or deny building permits for affordable housing...
Why scientists have dropped more than 40 million mosquitoes in Hawaii
AS
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June 19, 2025
Hawaii’s native songbirds are in serious trouble, and the unlikely hero in their story is the mosquito... or at least, a modified version of one. Why have mosquitos been released? In an effort to stop avian malaria from wiping out the islands’...
Volcano Watch: School’s out for summer — introducing new Hawaiian Volcano Observatory interns
Big Island Now - Hawaii
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June 19, 2025
“Volcano Watch” is a weekly article and activity update written by U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and affiliates. This week’s article is being issued a day early because of the Juneteenth federal holiday (June 19)....
Letter: Federal science cuts threaten isle economy
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii
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June 19, 2025
President Donald Trump’s proposed 2026 budget request includes debilitating cuts to critical federal science agencies. I’m a statistical physicist and engineer, a career made possible thanks to training funded by federal agencies. Budgetary...
North America Offshore Wind Projects Map 2025: Great Lakes, East Coast, California And Hawaii
MENAFN
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June 19, 2025
(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) Explore the new interactive map highlighting proposed and planned wind farming areas across the USA and Canada, including the Great Lakes. Discover offshore wind farm development stages, developers, and generating...
A young girl reconnects with her Hawaiian roots and ancestors while navigating the challenges of being a teenager in today’s world
International Examiner - Washington State
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June 19, 2025
Lei and the Fire Goddess by Malia Maunakea is a story about Anna, a young girl with Hawaiian roots, who is visiting her tūtū (grandma) as promised every summer since her family had to move to Colorado. She is in the middle of conflict with her...
NAVFAC Hawaii Awards $8 Billion Multiple Award Construction Contract
DVIDS - Georgia
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June 19, 2025
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, HAWAII, UNITED STATES 06.18.2025 JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR‐HICKAM, Hawaii — Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Hawaii has awarded a combined $8 billion indefinite‐delivery/indefinite‐quantity...
Research looks into how endangered honeycreepers are trapped in an 'extinction vortex'
Hawaii Public Radio
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June 17, 2025
The bedroom habits of birds might not be a polite topic of conversation, but whether endangered honeycreepers mate with their relatives is critically important information for biologists. Inbreeding often spells doom for a species, but for species...
Program connects kamaaina on the U.S. continent with Hawaii companies to fill local jobs
Hawaii News Now
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June 19, 2025
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - As recent college graduates face a challenging job market -- with nearly 6 percent unemployed -- the Chamber of Commerce Hawaii is expanding a program that helps kamaaina on the continent return to fill local positions....
Hawaii Coast Guard crew wraps up enforcement mission in Cook Islands
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii
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June 18, 2025
1/2 Swipe or click to see more AUSTIN WILEY / U.S. COAST GUARD / JUNE 7 A 26-foot over-the-horizon small boat carrying Coast Guard crew, two Cook Islands Ministry of Marine Resources fisheries officers and a translator from the U.S. Marine Corps...
Digital clones of our Milky Way created using strange physics laws to study 'alternate' versions of the universe
Earth.com
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You can’t see it, yet it tugs on every star in the sky. Astronomers call this hidden glue dark matter, and for nearly a century they have struggled to learn what it is and how it shapes the Milky Way. The newest clue comes from a Hollywood‑scale...
Time is running out to curb climate change: Window to avoid 1.5°C of warming will close in just 3 YEARS if CO2 emissions continue at current rate, scientists warn
Daily Mail
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June 18, 2025
Time is running out to curb climate change, scientists have warned in a major new report. There are now only 130 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide left in the 'carbon budget' - the amount of carbon that can be emitted before the world hits the...
Scientists Find Universe’s Missing Matter in Intergalactic ‘Cosmic Fog’
Scientific American
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June 17, 2025
Scientists Find Universe’s Missing Matter in Intergalactic ‘Cosmic Fog’ Researchers have used cosmic explosions called fast radio bursts to illuminate the intergalactic medium By Robert Lea & SPACE.com Astronomers have long struggled to see and...