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More hurricanes for Hawaii?
2013-05-06 00:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: News of a hurricane threat sends our hearts racing, glues us to the Internet for updates, and makes us rush to the store to stock up on staples. Hawaii, fortunately, has been largely free from these violent storms in the recent past, only two having made landfall in more than 30 years. Now a study headed by a team of scientists at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, shows that Hawaii could see a two-to-three-fold increase in tropical cyclones by the last quarter...
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Hawaii in Climate Change Bullseye
2013-05-05 19:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Discovery: Tropical cyclones of the future may have the Hawaiian islands in their cross hairs, according to a new study of how climate change will alter eastern Pacific Ocean storms near the end of the 21st century. In the middle of Earth's largest ocean and already in a warm clime, Hawaii seems like the last place to to worry about global warming. But as the air warms, the oceans are absorbing even more heat and that plays out in climate models that Hiroyuki Murakami, of the University of Hawaii, and his...
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Hawaii starts $739m Honolulu International Airport modernisation project
2013-05-03 01:00:00| Airport Technology
The state of Hawaii has commenced work on a four-year, $739m refurbishment and expansion project at Honolulu International Airport, as part of the state-wide Hawaii Airports Modernisation Program.
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Dean & DeLuca to make Hawaii debut in Waikiki
2013-04-25 12:38:05| Grocery - Topix.net
The store will be located at 2100 Kalakaua Avenue in Waikiki -- a mixed-use development that includes the Ritz-Carlton Residences.
Less Rain in Hawaii
2013-04-25 12:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: The Hawaiian Islands ecoregion includes one of the world's wettest places, the slopes of Mount Wai?ale?ale, which average 460 in (12,000 mm) of rainfall per year. However, almost imperceptibly, rainfall over the Hawaiian Islands has been declining since 1978, and this trend is likely to continue with global warming through the end of this century, according to a team of scientists at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) and the University of Colorado at Boulder. This latest Hawaii rainfall study,...
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