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Ontario's Minister of Education has announced she will audit discretionary spending of all school boards in the province after reports of expensive trips by board officials in recent months.

A baby goat that found itself stuck for days on a cliff in Hawaii has been rescued by a group of volunteers.

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The Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii has begun erupting, spewing volcanic gas and ash across the island

A story passed down in folklore led scientists to evidence of an 8-metre tsunami that hit an island in Hawaii hundreds of years ago

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In his latest book, The Blue on Fire: Hawaii, photographer Enzo Barracco hopes to inspire the world to protect the ocean.

By inoculating greenhouse na’u seedlings with mycorrhizal fungi, researchers hope to boost survival odds when the plants are returned to the wild

After seeing a social media call out for help rescuing a baby goat trapped on a cliff face near Honolulu, a group of hikers climbed to the rescue. The goat, nicknamed Bala, is now at a local animal sanctuary.

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Protecting coral reefs is the legislation’s goal

Hawaii Governor David Ige on Aug. 21 joined executives from the Office of Ocean Naval Research (ONR), Makai Ocean Engineering and other organizations on-site at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA) in cutting the ribbon and commissioning the first U.S., and world's largest, grid-connected ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) power plant.

Amid North Korea provocations, US could activate Pacific batteries at serene tourist locale

Unless action is taken now, coral reefs and many of the animals that depend on them may cease to exist within the next 40 years, causing the first global extinction of a worldwide ecosystem during current history.

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For the first time in decades, researchers have found a new bird species in the United States. Based on a specimen collected in 1963 on Midway Atoll, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, biologists have described a new species of seabird, Bryan’s shearwater

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Smithsonian scientists and collaborators have determined the evolutionary family tree for one of the most strikingly diverse and endangered bird families in the world, the Hawaiian honeycreepers.

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Ornithologists Carla Dove and Storrs Olson used 700- to 1,100-year-old feathers from a long extinct species of Hawaiian ibis to help determine the bird’s place in the ibis family tree. The feathers are the only known plumage of any of the prehistorically extinct birds that once inhabited the Hawaiian Islands.

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A rare Longman’s beaked whale found stranded on the Hawaiian island of Maui in 2010 has scientists in Hawaii on the alert for a deadly disease known as morbillivirus which can lead to high mortality rates in dolphins and other marine mammals.

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Fat, toxic and nocturnal, cane toads (Rhinella marina) are abundant today in Hawaii, even though they are South American natives. Released on the Hawaiian Islands […]

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As average annual temperatures increase, mosquitoes have also been on the move—up the mountains of the Hawaiian islands. Once a refuge for native birds susceptible […]

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Smithsonian Scientist Helen James dives into dormant Hawaiian volcanoes to find bird fossils. Her work to identify these species (some new species, some extinct) helps us learn about the past--specifically, how humans might have caused the extinction of certain bird species.

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A newly discovered Hawaiian tree recently had the distinction of being added to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Critically […]

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Scientists have found a massive deposit inside the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the moon, and it's having a significant impact on the moon's gravitational field.

Fisherman discovered a dock from the Japanese tsunami off the shores of Hawaii.

On the Big Island of Hawaii, debris is changing the landscape as thousands of pounds of trash hit Kamilo Beach — much of it from Japan. The refuse is already

Scientists discover that massive volcanic landslides have caused megatsunamis to strike the coasts of Hawaii throughout history, causing widespread destruction

A powerful earthquake in Alaska sent towering waves up to 30 feet (9 meters) tall crashing down on Hawaii about 500 years ago

I hiked to see flowing lava in Hawai‘i. Now I can't shut up about it.

Is a bill that treats homelessness as a medical condition flawed? Or is it just what the doctor ordered?

Spanish endurance athlete Antonio de la Rosa is the first to cross the Pacific on a paddleboard.

U.S. authorities have largely suspended their investigation of the molasses spill that fouled Hawaiian waters last month.

The beetle has already wreaked havoc around the Pacific, and recent sightings in Hawaii could spell trouble for its iconic palm trees.

By keeping out invasive cats, rats and other predators, a new fence on Kauai is helping a rare bird bounce back.

Don't want to live in it anymore? Just covert it into a drive-through shaved ice stand.

The rediscovery of this hibiscus relative in Hawaii illustrates the growing importance of drones in wildlife conservation.

The 'alalā went extinct in the wild in 2002, but a captive breeding program is preserving hope for the species.

A group of stick spiders in Hawaii evolves into the same three 'ecomorphs' every time it colonizes a new island or region.

With Hawaii's endless renewable energy potential, the state plans to generate 40 percent of its power from clean sources by 2030.

Beautiful beaches and clear, blue waters are a part of the Big Island's geography, but so are volcanic mountains, lava fields, caves, and impossibly high waterf

Material from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to be collected, melted down and rebuilt into a floating paradise for green tourism.

The only endemic duck remaining on the Hawaiian islands is back from the brink of genetic extinction.

Wave power has the potential to supply 25 percent of the nation's energy.

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