$50M gift aims to improve Hawai?i’s ocean health
The University of Â鶹´«Ã½ at ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ will conduct ocean health research with a $50 million gift from Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg.
New collection highlights Indigenous perspectives on conservation biology
The special issue of Pacific Conservation Biology was edited by two University of Â鶹´«Ã½ at ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ researchers.
$2.5M for food-chain microbiome research could impact agriculture, biofuel systems
The project will examine how symbiotic microbes contribute to the efficiency of food webs, and how food webs determine the composition of symbiotic microbes.
Earth on trajectory to Sixth Mass Extinction say biologists
In a published study, experts warn that a sixth mass extinction crisis is underway, this time entirely caused by human activities.
UH breaks ground on RISE entrepreneurship, student housing facility
RISE is being built under a public-private partnership between UH, UH Foundation and Hunt Companies.
Newly-discovered planets will be ‘swallowed’ by their stars
IfA astronomers used the Keck Observatory on Maunakea to pinpoint three gas giant planets.
Water on the Moon; team confirms with ground equipment
The new study reported the first in-situ measurements of water on the lunar surface.
Ocean plastic is creating new communities of life on the high seas
A report found coastal species growing on trash hundreds of miles out to sea in the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.”
How to protect native, endangered birds from solar installations in Hawai?i
The report concludes, “We all want solar power to succeed but it requires planning rather than reacting.”
Explosion of supergiant star captured by UH telescope
For the first time, telescopes imaged the self-destruction and final death throes of a massive star.