WASHINGTONNASA’s planet-hunting telescope has discovered two planets that seem like ideal places for some sort of life to flourish. Continue reading
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NASA sees distant planets that seem ideal for life
WASHINGTON (AP) NASA’s planet-hunting telescope has discovered two planets that seem like ideal places for some sort of life to flourish. And they are just the right size and in just the right place. One is toasty, the other nippy Continue reading
Storm Surges, Rising Seas Could Doom Pacific Islands This Century
Atolls and other low-lying islands in the Pacific Ocean may not slip under the waves but they will likely become uninhabitable due to overwashing waves By Julia Pyper and ClimateWire U.S. Continue reading
Freedom Treatment Center Staff Member Reaches Out To Local School
Freedom Treatment Center is a Southern Michigan alcohol and drug addiction recovery facility that consistently participates in activities in the immediate community as well as throughout the region and entire state to help raise addiction awareness and give back. The centers latest community event highlighted the heritage as well as the culinary skills of a Freedom Treatment Center staff member who participated in an ethnic food cook-off at a local middle school. Albion, MI (PRWEB) March 04, 2013 The cook-off has been a popular event in the past, bringing more than 100 samples of food from various backgrounds last year alone Continue reading
Hawaiian Islands may vanish from world map, say geologists
The Hawaiian Islands in the North Pacific are dissolving from within and at some point in the future they might fall off the map completely, geologists claim. Continue reading
Hawaiian Islands 'dissolving from within'
Washington, December 22 (ANI): Oahu’s Koolau and Waianae mountains will be reduced to nothing more than a flat, low-lying island like Midway someday, but the biggest culprit behind this is not erosion as the mountains of Oahu are actually dissolving from within, researchers say. “We tried to figure out how fast the island is going away and what the influence of climate is on that rate,” Brigham Young University geologist Steve Nelson said. Continue reading
Flat Island (Popoia Island) 2012 HD – Video
Flat Island (Popoia Island) 2012 HD Flat Island (Popoia Island) lives up to its name, but it's more than a horizontally-oriented offshore island. The four-acre Flat Island, located about one-fourth mile from Kailua Beach Park, is a favorite resting stop for kayakers and a playground for surfers. Kailua Beach Park is the perfect place to enjoy ocean activities like fishing, sailing, windsurfing, snorkeling and kiteboarding, and a quick trip out to Flat Island (Popoia Island) is essential on a visit and one of Oahu's best beaches. Continue reading
JLM Energy Inc. and Pacific Islands Construction Announce Integrated Partnership in Renewable Energy Products for …
HONOLULU–(BUSINESS WIRE)– JLM Energy Inc., an energy technology company and Pacific Islands Construction, general contracting, roofing and renewable energy specialists, announce a partnership for sales and installation of the Zefr Urban Arrayed Wind Turbine and the Gyezr Commercial Grade Solar Thermal Collectors. Continue reading
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Society Islands Are Home To 14 Newly Described Beetle Species
October 11, 2012 Image Caption: This is the newly described Perraults predatory ground beetle, Mont Tohiea, Moorea; actual body size is 6 mm. Continue reading
Ideas outnumber attendees at Libertarian’s fundraiser
GREENSBORO The Libertarian Partys vice presidential candidate swung through the Triad on Monday with his pitch: Give the nations third party a chance. You might like it. Continue reading
Fifty metric tons of marine debris from Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
ScienceDaily (July 20, 2012) NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette arrived back in its homeport of Honolulu a few days ago after a month in Papahnaumokukea Marine National Monument. The team of 17 scientists collected nearly 50 metric tons of marine debris, which threatens monk seals, sea turtles and other marine life in the coral reef ecosystem, in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI). NOAA has conducted annual removal missions of marine debris in the NWHI since 1996 as part of a coral restoration effort Continue reading
Considering spirituality on islands of Hawaii
The night winds were uncharacteristically powerful for this time of year. Continue reading
Guide to the best beaches in Maui
Maui is called The Valley Island, but in most travelers minds, its beaches are synonymous with the Hawaiian island. In the annual Best Beach contest held since 1991, Maui has won four times five, if you stretch the definition of Maui Continue reading
America's Top 10 Beaches Of 2012
Just in time for summer, we present the list of top 10 beaches across the USA. Dr. Continue reading
Study: 70 percent of beaches on Oahu, Maui and Kauai undergoing long-term erosion
A University of Hawaii and U.S. Geological Survey study published Monday shows that 70 percent of beaches on the islands of Oahu, Maui and Kauai are undergoing long-term beach erosion. Scientists from the USGS and the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at UH studied more than 150 miles of island coastline, which is essentially every beach, and found the average rate of coastal change taking into account beaches that are both eroding and accreting was 0.4 feet of erosion per year from the early 1900s to 2000s. Continue reading