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In collaboration with the community, UH researchers are sampling West Maui reefs to assess the impact from the toxic ash from the devastating Lahaina wildfire.

The UH Mānoa Office of the Provost has formally initiated the search for the dean of the John A. Burns School of Medicine.

The bloom of microscopic marine life covered an area nearly 40 times the size of the island of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi within 48 hours after the eruption.

The largest submarine volcanic eruption of this century led to a dramatic phytoplankton bloom north of the island of Tongatapu, in the Kingdom of Tonga.

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers conducted a monumental field expedition by sampling more than 3,000 microbes and microbiomes from Waimea Valley.

The interactive dashboard allows the public to track water sample findings over time and provides visual maps and graphs used for screening analyses as well as downloadable data.

The University of Hawaii’s Red Hill Task Force has launched a new tool that it says will help give the public and local officials data to better understand the quality

Now scientific studies are increasingly detecting microplastics in some human organs – including the lungs, spleen, kidneys, and even the placenta.

In 2019, a shock report by the environmental charity WWF estimated that people are ingesting and inhaling up to five grams of plastic per week -- enough to make a credit card.

From ocean depths to mountain peaks, humans have littered the planet with tiny shards of plastic. We have even absorbed these microplastics into our bodies—with uncertain implications.