On the west coast of the island of Hawaii, a new international airport generated a 26% increase in tourist arrivals in 1997.
The tsunami that wrecked northern Japanese fishing villages and small cities also travelled across the Pacific and hit the Hawaiian islands, causing tens of millions of dollars worth of damage to boats, docks, beach homes and led to the closing of the famous Kona Village Resort, a picturesque minimalist string of high-end bungalows on the Kona coast of the Big Island of Hawaii.
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KonaRed, a company located on the island paradise of Hawaii, is investigating juice made from the fruit of the coffee plant which contains three antioxidant compounds that might fight inflammation and boost immunity.
But nowhere in the United States is the immediate need to tackle resource efficiency more evident than in the island state of Hawaii.
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It's a three-day race covering 320 miles on the big island of Hawaii, including a 10-kilometer ocean swim, more than 260 miles by bike and a double marathon run.
He says he had a long conversation with Snabe from outside a hotel on the big island of Hawaii, standing near a dumpster surrounded by a swarm of bees.
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At 42 years old, I competed in the Ultraman World Championships, a grueling three-day uber-endurance triathlon circumnavigating the Big Island of Hawaii that involves 6.2 miles of swimming, 260 miles of cycling and culminates with a 52.4-mile double marathon run.
The museum and several Native Hawaiian groups are struggling to figure out what should be done with 83 objects, including bones and rare carved artifacts taken from sacred burial caves in Kawaihae, on the Big Island of Hawaii in 1905.
Thanks to its commitment to renewable energy, Hawaii is now also becoming something of a test bed for renewable energy technologies, from the study of various geothermal and algae-based biofuel technologies happening at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority on the Big Island to smart grid experiments the state is conducting along with representatives from Japan and China.
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The frog folderol began in 2004, when officials declared a state of emergency on Hawaii's Big Island because of the invaders.
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Donna Whitaker, executive director of the Hawaii Island Humane Society, says often a dog barks because it is bored.
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Many such destinations are worth visiting for other reasons too: as well as being pleasant places to go on holiday, Iceland, Hawaii and the Greek island of Santorini all demonstrate, for example, the influence of vulcanism on island formation.
Guam competes with the sheer natural beauty of Hawaii and the wealth of beaches in the Bahamas, but more than that, the island offers an authentic, delicious and culturally rich getaway you may never have known was waiting for you.
Friday marked another important step forward for the future of astronomical discovery and economic opportunity on Hawaii Island.
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But unlike island chains like Hawaii, the Galapagos still maintains 95 percent of its native plants and animals.
Ellison has bought about 98% of Lana'I, the sixth-largest island in Hawaii -- and one that's more than 1, 000 times larger than the private island that Branson owns in the British Virgin Islands.
Mississippi and Rhode Island came in just ahead of Hawaii, making them the second and third worst places to make a living.
Florida has a population that appears to be breeding, but only in Hawaii, where the fish is isolated on the island of Oahu, does it truly thrive, and there it's aggressively fished.
The governor of Hawaii confirmed the sale of the 140-square mile island Wednesday, but didn't say how much it went for.
With a firm grasp of science matched by her eagerness to inform, she transforms her other adventures in places like Madagascar, Hawaii and Lombok into diverting lessons in the biodiversity of island ecosystems.
In Hawaii, the Puna Geothermal power plant sits about 21 miles south of Hilo on the Big Island on the Kilauea Volcano.
Guests were forced to check out of the Volcano House Hotel and Restaurant at the Volcanoes National Park on the Hawaii's Big Island.
Underwater cables have been installed in Long Island, in a few test projects in Canada, and in a handful of European locations, but the Hawaii project will be one of the largest and most complicated.
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