Raising Islands--Hawai'i science and environment

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 The United States has the safest food in the world, but maybenot for long.
Massive cuts in the agencies that oversee the healthiness ofour grocery store products are threatening the nation.
Food safety has long been protected by four major governmentoffices: the DHHS’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the USDA’s Food Safetyand Inspection Service (FSIS), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), andthe Department of Commerce’s National...

 There are those—some of them in our nation’s leadership—who stilldeny climate science.
It’s a little like rejecting the rain forecast when theflood is already up to your knees.
The World Meteorological Organization just issued its Stateof the Climate report. It is no longer about predictions, because thepredictions of past decades are all now coming to pass....

There were years when we despaired about the survival of Hawaiian monk seals.
Image: A young seal at Pearl and Hermes Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Credit: NOAA Fisheries Hawaiian monk seal research program.
Populations were dropping year after year and nothing seemed to be able to turn that around. Take a look at RaisingIslands' 2008 post on the distressing status of seals at that time....