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Does the 30 Meter Telescope Pose Environmental Risks?
Posted by Civil Beat: None Given on April 27th, 2015
Civil Beat: As protests against the Thirty Meter Telescope continue, many critics say they’re worried that the $1.4 billion project will damage Mauna Kea’s environment.
Thirteen observatories have already been built on the top of the state’s tallest mountain, but the TMT will be by far the largest. Once completed, the observatory and its support building will span 1.4 acres.
The project will take up another 5 acres extending the road leading up to the mountain and adding a parking lot. It may also involve...
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Cyberattack Hits TMT and State Government Websites
Posted by Civil Beat: None Given on April 27th, 2015
Civil Beat: Hawaii state government’s official website went down Sunday, along with the main site for the organization building the Thirty Meter Telescope atop Mauna Kea.
TMT spokeswoman Caroline Witherspoon confirmed that the organization’s website had received a denial of service attack but said that it was back up as of 3 p.m. She didn’t know how long the attack lasted.
Update The state’s website, hawaii.gov, was back up and running by 5 p.m.
Gov. David Ige’s communications director, Cindy McMillan,...
Mauna Kea and the awakening of the lahui
Posted by Hawaiin Indpendent: None Given on April 27th, 2015
Hawaiin Indpendent: Multiple generations of campaigners are rallying around Mauna Kea as a symbol for the larger issues of self-determination and Aloha ?Aina in what is becoming one of, if not the, largest mobilizations of Hawaiian activism in decades.
“We have vowed to protect the remnants of our culture, no matter what cost; and the culture cannot exist without the land.” -- George Jarrett Helm
“We are in a time of enlightenment for our people! We have risen; we have awakened; we have remembered; and we`re going...
Warming climate may release vast amounts of carbon from long-frozen Arctic soils
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 27th, 2015
ScienceDaily: While climatologists are carefully watching carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, another group of scientists is exploring a massive storehouse of carbon that has the potential to significantly affect the climate change picture.
University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography researcher Aron Stubbins is part of a team investigating how ancient carbon, locked away in Arctic permafrost for thousands of years, is now being transformed into carbon dioxide and released into the atmosphere....