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Hawaii fires

August 2024

  • woman with short hair wearing white top and black skirt stands on neighborhood sidewalk

    America's dirty divide
    For Maui wildfire survivors who moved to Las Vegas, another climate disaster awaits: extreme heat

    A year after the fire some try to rebuild life in the city known as the ‘ninth Hawaiian island’ – as temperatures top 117F
  • Thick leaves on an old, sturdy tree

    Maui celebrates recovery of 151-year-old banyan tree after 2023 wildfire damage

    Community landmark is now thriving and bearing fruit after about half its branches died due to intense heat
  • Large color photos and crosses draped with leis are displayed outside with small mountains in the background.

    Lawsuit over deadly Maui wildfires in 2023 settled for $4bn

    Global settlement was reached in suit over fire that killed 102 and destroyed downtown Lahaina in August 2023

May 2024

  • Signs asking people to respect locals and that 'Lahaina is not for sale' are seen on the side of the Lahaina Bypass, in Lahaina, Hawaii.

    Hawaii to limit vacation rentals in response to tight housing market

    Last year’s deadly Maui wildfire revealed the extent of short-term rentals and their contribution to the state’s housing shortage

April 2024

  • Long row of laminated color photos of people, attached to a fence with white crosses and colorful ribbons, with sun peeking through clouds beyond mountain behind it.

    Multiple communications failures hurt emergency response to Maui wildfires – report

    Hawaii attorney general releases report day after fire chiefs detail challenges faced by first responders during blazes that killed 101 people

March 2024

  • Two tree trunks with cityscape and mountains in back

    First came the Maui wildfires. Now come the land grabs: ‘Who owns the land is key to Lahaina’s future’

    As ‘disaster capitalists’ text survivors with offers to buy their ruined homes, a land trust is trying to help residents keep them

February 2024

  • Full-size color images laminated of people on fence with ribbons and white crosses, with mountain and sun breaking through mist beyond it.

    Maui wildfire survivors can apply for $175m One Ohana Fund starting 1 March

  • Unloading a fresh produce delivery at Nāpili Park Emergency Community Resource Center.

    Our unequal earth
    How traditional Hawaiian food is playing a key role in wildfire recovery

  • One of the burn zones in Lahaina. Plaque in front of the property documeting environmnetal hazards.

    Exclusive: Maui wildfire survivors face soaring rates of depression and lung problems – study

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    Through the roof
    Six months after Maui wildfire, 5,000 survivors still stranded: ‘We’re tired of broken promises’

January 2024

  • A row of color photographs of people, with ribbons and a white cross attached to each, on a fence, with the sun setting behind distant hills.

    Maui wildfire: last of 100 known victims of deadly blaze identified

    Identifying those who died has been arduous, with forensic experts and cadaver dogs sifting through ash

December 2023

  • Patrick Makuakāne in a baseball cap and a lei.

    ‘Hula is my church’: how Patrick Makuakāne is reinvigorating Hawaii’s traditional dance

  • The Rev Ai Hironaka, resident minister of the Lahaina Hongwanji Mission, walks out of a destroyed building

    The Guardian picture essay
    Lahaina reopens after Hawaii’s deadly wildfire – a photo essay

  • A poster-size, hand-painted sign with "Lahaina" in red capital letters below a picture of green hills, blue ocean and a rainbow.

    Through the roof
    The US promised to return stolen lands to Native Hawaiians a century ago. Most are still waiting

  • A woman stands in a building with a table, chair, wood beams and two windows.

    Through the roof
    The Maui wildfire exacerbated a housing crisis. Can tiny homes and ADUs offer a solution?

  • Through the roof
    Survivors of deadly Maui blaze face displacement after displacement: ‘I live a nomadic life’

  • The fire that still burns: the mental health crisis unfolding among Maui’s children

November 2023

  • A flash drought had dried out grasslands before wildfires devastated Maui, Hawaii, in August.

    Weatherwatch
    Flash droughts are likely to become increasingly common, say researchers

    Scientists have been studying the increasingly common phenomenon, which can intensify wildfires and affect crop yields

October 2023

  • An Indigenous Hawaiian man wearing a shirt that says 'Keep Lahaina lands in Lahaina hands' at a benefit concert in Hawaii

    Grieving Maui residents prepare to rebuild but ask: ‘For whom?’

  • A pedestrian walks along Honoapiilani Highway as properties destroyed by the West Maui Fire are seen in Lahaina

    ‘No time to grieve’: residents lament decision to reopen Maui to tourism

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