The reef damage was caused by the yacht Nakoa in 2023, when the boat’s mooring line snapped. The vessel rocked on the reef for nearly two weeks until it was towed away, and then sank. The state fined ...

Two years after the Nakoa luxury yacht got stuck in Honolua Bay and damaged about 1,600 meters of live rock and more than 100 ...

The search for a navigator led them 4,000 kilometers west, to the tiny Micronesian island of Satawal. The island is just over ...

Coral reefs are vital to marine life and biodiversity and protect coastal communities from storms and flooding, but much of ...

Much of Hawaii's coral reefs are dying, turning bleached white, due to rising temperatures and chemicals brought into the ...

Hawaii’s Exceptional Tree Program began in 1975 when the Legislature passed Act 105 to protect Hawaiʻi’s most valued trees ...