Less than a week after President Trump signed an executive order to accelerate seabed mining, the U.S. government received its first permit application from the Metals Company, one of the most ardent proponents of the as yet unproven practice. On Tuesday, the company’s chief executive, Gerard Barron, was also on hand in Washington, D.C., for…
<p style="text-align: justify;">दक्षिण प्रशांत महासागर में बसा तुवालु एक द्वीपीय देश है. ये दुनिया के सबसे छोटे देशों में से एक है. यहां अभी तक सारा लेन-देन कैश में ही होता था. प्रशांत महासागर में बसे इस देश ने 15 अप्रैल को अपना पहला एटीएम लगाकर इतिहास रच दिया है. दुनिया के सबसे कम आबादी…
Lava began bubbling out of Hawaii’s most active volcano once again on Tuesday as Kilauea’s sporadic eruption resumed. The eruption restarted at midday when molten rock began pouring out of a vent in Kilauea’s summit caldera, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said in a statement. The lava was contained within the caldera inside Hawaii Volcanoes National…
50 States, 50 Fixes The air is filled with birdsong, the land a tableau of soft greens and gentle light. This is Ho‘oulu ‘Āina, a 100-acre preserve with an unusual twist. Linked to a community health center, it is a place where patients come to heal the land, and themselves. As climate change accelerates and…
Chronic absenteeism is not just data resounding the state of US education- it is an academic crisis weakening the foundation of the nation. What began as a temporary disruption during the pandemic has translated into a persistent problem, with classrooms witnessing alarming low attendance rates. In just five years, from 2018 to 2023, chronic absenteeism…
Karen Pryor once taught a hermit crab to ring a bell by pulling a string with its claw. She taught a cat to play the piano (ham was involved) and, most impressive, her mother to stop complaining on the phone. Ms. Pryor, whose experience as a dolphin trainer showed her how positive reinforcement could be…
Mike Hynson, who epitomized the image of the bronzed surf god as a star of the hit 1966 surfing documentary “The Endless Summer” and, with his outlaw instincts, embodied the rebel ethos of the sport on his way to being hailed a colossus of the curl, died on Jan. 10 in Encinitas, Calif. He was…
A body was found in the wheel well of a United Airlines after the aircraft landed in the Hawaiian island of Maui, the airline said on Wednesday. The body was discovered in one of the compartments that houses the airplane’s landing gear when United Flight 202 from Chicago O’Hare International Airport landed at Kahului Airport…
The father of 30-year-old Hawaii photographer Hannah Kobayashi, who had been missing for weeks, was found dead near Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Sunday. Fifty-eight-year-old Ryan Kobayashi, had been on the look-out for his daughter, who mysteriously disappeared over two weeks ago after missing a connecting flight to New York from Los Angeles. Before…