Tag: Hawaii

• Tuesday, November 29th 2022 - 10:11 UTC

  Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano erupts

  

  The Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano, has been reported Monday to be erupting for the first time in nearly 4 decades. Webcam footage released by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Monday showed lava on the summit.

• Monday, March 28th 2022 - 21:28 UTC

  COVID-19 forces cruise ship back to port

  

  A Princess Cruise vessel that had left San Francisco on a 15-day voyage to the Panama Canal and back has been gripped by COVID-19. According to the shipping company, 100% of passengers and crew were vaccinated. The Port of San Francisco also requires that at least 95% of both passengers and crew members onboard are vaccinated.

• Monday, August 29th 2016 - 04:27 UTC

  Obama creates largest protected marine area in Hawaii

  

  United States President Barack Obama will dramatically expand the Papahnaumokuakea Marine National Monument off the coast of Hawaii on Friday, the White House said, an action that will ban commercial fishing from more than 1.5 million sq km of the Pacific Ocean.

• Friday, September 26th 2014 - 06:42 UTC

  US expands marine reserve in the Pacific to three times the size of California

  

  US President Barack Obama has signed a memorandum to expand a vast marine reserve in the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument will become the largest network of oceanic protected areas in the world.

• Thursday, March 17th 2011 - 07:44 UTC

  Japanese tsunami surprises Midway atoll killing thousands of albatrosses

  

  Thousands of albatrosses and other endangered species at a wildlife sanctuary north-west of Hawaii have been killed by the tsunami which devastated Japan, US officials say.