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Reading time: 2 minutes Hawaiʻi imports 100% of its rice, totaling 140 million pounds a year; local production can play a major role in the state’s food security Last fall, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers asked the question: Can Hawaiʻi grow rice again? Now, a new study published in Frontiers in Agronomy has given […]

Reading time: 2 minutes Wendy Kuntz, James Lee, Charlotte Bender, Xander Nakamura, Keala Kaaloa, Misaki Takabayashi. A decade of undergraduate research and stewardship at Kapiʻolani Community College has earned top honors at the Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance Conference. Students Charlotte Bender, James Lee, Keala Kaaloa and Xander Nakamura received the Outstanding Undergraduate Student Poster Presentation Award

Reading time: 2 minutes The Colca Valley in the Peruvian Andes (Photo credit: Patricia van den Berg, pixabay) A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa physicist is part of an international team behind a new approach to studying some of the universe’s most mysterious particles&@8212;using mountains instead of ice. A paper published July 15 in Nature

Reading time: 3 minutes Alika K. Maunakea, professor at the UH Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine, is a senior author of a study that found that certain gut bacteria are associated with the pace of biological aging. The research adds to growing evidence that the gut microbiome may play an important role in

Reading time: 2 minutes A close up of coral polyps at Olowalu. (Photo credit: Drew Sulock) Human activities are fundamentally altering the chemical makeup of local coral reefs, according to a study led by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and published in Nature Communications. The research team discovered that 25 contaminants from agricultural, industrial

Reading time: 2 minutes When talking about Hawaiʻi’s food security, the conversation often focuses on physical infrastructure — warehouses, cold storage, and doubling crop production to combat importing 90% of our food. A new policy article by a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researcher contends that physical infrastructure and production are essential, but incomplete when

Reading time: 2 minutes For many adults at risk for Type 2 diabetes, knowing where to begin can be one of the biggest obstacles to prevention. A new study from the Healthy Hawaiʻi Evaluation Team (HHET) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Thompson School of Social Work and Public Health and the Hawaiʻi State

Reading time: 2 minutes (Photo credit: Melissa Price) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the reclassification of the Aʻeo, or Hawaiian stilt (Himantopus mexicanus knudseni), from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act, a rare and hopeful milestone for a native Hawaiian species. The change, published in the Federal Register alongside a species-specific

Reading time: 2 minutes Vertical farming is ideal for Hawaiʻi, where agricultural land is limited. In a state where land is expensive, and the tropical heat can be a hurdle for certain crops, researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience (CTAHR) are looking up. Kyle Marcelino, a

Reading time: 2 minutes Lava fountain at Halemaʻumaʻu crater of Kīlauea volcano (June 14, 2026) (USGS photo credit: T. Paladino) New research shows the Hawaiian mantle plume has gotten hotter by about 250°C (480°F) over the past 47 million years. Led by Earth scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, the study published in