NASA/Lisa Tanh, Matilda Anokye, Ian Lee, Connor Racette The island of Hawai’i and surrounding waters glow in unusual shades in this 2022 model made through NASA DEVELOP. The model was created to help the County of Hawai’i in their shoreline setback plan. The image shows areas of high flood risk (blue), as well as sea surface temperatures. Orange in the west indicates...
Loko iʻa practice reflects a deep Indigenous understanding of the environmental, ecological and social processes specific to our islands. Fisheries and Stewardship: Lessons from Native Hawaiian Aquaculture By Brenda Asuncion, Miwa Tamanaha, Kevin K.J. Chang and Kim Moa This article is the fourth in a series of articles published by NPQ, in partnership with First...
In honor of Asian-American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we recognize astronauts with Asian roots who have flown to the International Space Station and contributed to its assembly, operations and research activities. Other pioneers preceded them into space. The first person of Asian origin to reach space, Phạm Tuân of Vietnam spent eight days...
This story is a part of pop justice, Scalawag’s newsletter exploring the intersection of popular culture and justice—namely through abolition. Sign up here. As a rule, I do not watch shows about Hawai`i. Or at least, I try not to. Too often, shows about my home produced by mainstream media are whitewashed and made to serve neocolonialism—portraying Hawai`i as...