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Hawai'i has become a flashpoint both because it's an epicenter of GE seed production and because locals have been building a strong movement to challenge corporate, industrial agriculture

This year, 2 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders can gain health coverage from the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The good news is that there may be even more affordable options over the next few years.

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The history of the Rainbow, and its deep affiliation with the University of Hawaii's sports teams, is unassumingly detailed on the athletic department's website. If this is unfamiliar to you, the story goes something like this.

There is something very disingenuous about media personalities who, as they salivate over the Trump boost to their ratings, ask themselves -- and others -- to explain his failure to fade. They need only look in the mirror.

The Agreement includes several key elements that are of particular importance to the Pacific region, including recognition for pursuing a temperature goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and a strengthened mechanism for loss and damage.

Imagine every week you spend a couple hours sharing music and having fun. You meet old friends, and make new ones. There's no plan beforehand what you're going to play.

Denmark's objective is that by 2020, wind energy must make up 50% of the electricity consumption -- today the number is more than 40%. After 2020, we must integrate even more, and that will require rethinking the electricity grid.

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Somewhere over the rainbows and beautiful warm beaches of Hawaii, dreams really do come true for international foodies and wine connoisseurs. This is what I learned during a conversation I recently had with my friend and international travel influencer, Scott Eddy.

The moment I decided to leave everything that was familiar and over 5,000 miles away from New York City to an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean was the moment that has forever defined the rest of my life.

If you know where to look, you can find just about any cuisine on wheels cooked to perfection--Mexican, Puerto Rican, fusion...you name it, Oahu's got it.

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By addressing how our responses to survivors play a critical role in the healing process, these women show that dealing with sexual assault should not be an individual's burden alone, but a collective responsibility we embrace with compassion and the utmost care.

The Zika virus has been in circulation in Africa for some time, but in the last two years it made a decisive crossing into South America. In any event, in this previously unexposed population it is producing a particularly horrifying havoc.