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Air cargo containers with the logo of Amazon are seen at Miami International Airport, in Miami, Florida, United States on June 16, 2021.Marco Bello | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesAmazon has hired Hawaiian Airlines to fly the first Airbus cargo planes in the retail giant's air network, aircraft that will help replace older jets, as the carrier becomes the latest passenger airline to fly for the company.Hawaiian will fly at least 10 Airbus A330-300 converted freighters for Amazon, with the first ones starting in the fall of…

Hawai’i is home to multiple lava caves, lava tubes, and geothermal vents. And a new study that researchers published in Frontiers in Microbiology reveals that these caves have higher bacteria diversity than expected. Researchers have discovered thousands of ancient unknown bacteria lurking within the caves. Scientists found thousands of ancient unknown bacteria hiding in caves Thurston Lava Tube, a 500-year-old lava cave located within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Image source: VW Pics / Getty…

Steve Smith in a Hawaiian cave passage filled with roots of the Kaʻu district on the Island of Hawai`i. Credit: Kenneth InghamCenturies-Old Lava Caves of Hawaiʻi Island Contain Thousands of Unknown Bacterial SpeciesHigher bacterial diversity than scientists expected has been uncovered in the lava caves, lava tubes, and geothermal vents on the big island of Hawaiʻi. The findings have been reported in a new study published today (July 21, 2022) in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology.This research investigates the variety…

Cars in Honolulu, Hawaii. Photo: Kent Nishimura-Pool/ (Getty Images)Mesina D. is a 15-year-old from Kailua, Oahu. A few years ago, she visited the shoreline with a relative who pointed several feet into the water. “She said, ‘I used to play volleyball out there,’” Mesina told Earther. “And now it’s just all ocean 20 feet up to where we were.”Mesina is one 14 young people ranging from the ages of 9 to 18 years old who filed a lawsuit against Hawaii’s state’s transportation department last week, alleging that the agency…

At Sunday Motor Co. Café in Madison, New Jersey, customers are sampling the latest in biodegradable non-plastic utensils. Specifically, straws made of seaweed. The dispenser says, "Designed to Disappear," which is exactly what the co-founder of sustainable start-up Loliware envisioned.Chelsea Briganti, who goes by "Sea," was born and raised in Hawaii, where, as a child, she remembered pristine shorelines."And I noticed steadily over the years, as I got older, that there was a ton of plastic pollution in the ocean and on…

Hawaiian Holdings Inc. HA 0.51% is investing in a company developing electric seagliders that the airline hopes to fly on short hops between islands.The battery-powered seagliders being developed by Regent, a Boston-based startup, are a hybrid of a boat and a plane. They would cruise five to 30 feet above the waves on average, flying on a cushion of air that keeps the plane aloft, known as the “ground effect.” Flying between the Hawaiian islands is a major source of…

Image for representation. (Image source: Reuters)Hawaiian said it's the first deal between Starlink and a major airline, although charter operator JSX announced a deal with SpaceX last week.Hawaiian Airlines said Monday that it will offer free wireless internet service from SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network on flights between Hawaii and the U.S. mainland, Asia and Oceania. The airline said it is in the early stages of putting the service in place on some aircraft next year.Honolulu-based Hawaiian said it’s the first…

Elon Musk's Starlink will provide in-flight wireless internet on Hawaiian Airlines's trans-Pacific fleet, the airline said on Monday.Under the deal, the companies are in the initial stages of implementation and the wireless internet is expected to be installed on select aircraft next year, Hawaiian said.Starlink, a unit of SpaceX, has been in talks with various airlines for months to provide the in-flight internet service as it seeks to expand its reach beyond consumers and households in rural areas of the globe with…

SpaceX is starting to make deals with airlines to provide its Starlink satellite internet to sky travelers everywhere. It announced a deal on Monday with Hawaiian Airlines, and last week made a similar deal with charter carrier JSX. None of the involved parties shared the financial details of their deals, but both airlines did say they’re planning to offer the in-flight Wi-Fi for free, which is both a semi-miraculous fact and a sign of hope that free Wi-Fi is becoming the industry standard. Delta meanwhile, confirmed…