SACRAMENTO, California, Jan. 12 -- California Attorney General Xavier Becerra issued the following news release on Jan. 11: California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today, as part of a 12-state coalition, submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) arguing that its new draft guidance misinterprets the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund. In County of Maui, the Supreme Court established a new standard to determine if the indirect discharg more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Jan. 13 -- The Hawaii Department of Education issued the following news release: The Hawaii State Department of Education (HIDOE) recently announced the cancellation of all large, in-person social gatherings through June 1, 2021. This includes proms, banquets, May Day celebrations, and other school-sanctioned social events with over 20 attendees. "We understand that these are significant and meaningful events to our students," Superintendent Dr. Christina Kishimoto said. "T more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- National Geographic Partners, a joint venture between Walt Disney and National Geographic Society, issued the following news release on Jan. 13: National Geographic, with Scott Free Productions and 20th Television, announced today that Tony Goldwyn ("King Richard," "Scandal," "Lovecraft Country") and Daniel Dae Kim ("Hawaii Five-0," "Lost," "The Good Doctor") will star in the next installment of the scripted anthology series THE HOT ZONE: ANTHRAX. Previously announced, Ke more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Jan. 16 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened many of the problems faced by Native Hawaiian communities, but in a new paper, public health researchers detail the numerous efforts of Native Hawaiian-led groups that show these communities' strength and resilience. Since the start of the pandemic, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders have faced a higher risk of contracting COVID-19 than other groups in  more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Jan. 12 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release on Jan. 11: A team of astronomers led by University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) graduate student Travis Berger has shown that an intriguing class of Neptune-sized planets shrinks over billions of years. From centuries of studying the planets within our solar system, astronomers have wondered how planets form and evolve to become the ones we observe them today. One of the most surprisin more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Jan. 13 (TNSRes) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: The centers of galaxies with actively feeding supermassive black holes are already astounding environments. Now, a team of researchers led by a graduate student from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) has found an even more interesting oddball. Feeding black holes typically increase and decrease in brightness similar to the Kilauea volcano, becoming more or less active over time more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Jan. 12 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release on Jan. 11: "They should have sent a poet," says Ellie Arroway in the film Contact as, suspended in outer space, she gazes upon a spiral galaxy. Almost all of the planets discovered to date (including the solar system planets) are confined to the plane of the Milky Way, unable to glimpse such a sweeping vista of our galaxy. However, astronomers at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (If more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Jan. 14 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release on Jan. 13: After years of development and testing, researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have successfully demonstrated that a fleet of autonomous robots can track and study a moving microbial community in an open-ocean eddy. The results of this research effort were recently published in Science  more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Jan. 12 (TNSRes) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: El Nino events have long been perceived as a driver for low rainfall in the winter and spring in Hawaii, creating a six-month wet-season drought. However, the connection between Hawaii winter rainfall and El Nino is not as straightforward as previously thought, according to a recent study by researchers in the University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST).  more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Jan. 15 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Rates of mortality from COVID-19 are lower in areas where public health measures aimed at preventing the spread of the disease were implemented earlier in the outbreak, according to a study from University of Hawaii at Manoa public health researchers. The findings are published in PLOS ONE. For the study, researchers including Yan Yan Wu, an associate professor of biostatistics with the UH Manoa O more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Jan. 12 (TNSJou) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release on Jan. 11: University of Wyoming researchers headed a study that shows nonnative birds in Oahu, Hawaii, have taken over the role of seed dispersal networks on the island, with most of the seeds coming from nonnative plants. "Hawaii is one of the most altered ecosystems in the world, and we are lucky enough to examine how these nonnative-dominated communities alter important processes, such as see more PR