Big Island
Another Day, Another Kona Sunset 5
Another Day, Another Kona Sunset Kona offers some of the most beautiful sunsets on earth – here is just one… See More Kona Sunsets Here Just What Causes Orange (or Red) Sunsets/Sunrises? Molecules and small particles in the atmosphere change the direction of light rays, causing them to scatter. This scattering affects the color of light […]
Video: How Covering The Volcano Eruption Changed A Life
Kilauea Video: A Civil Beat documentary chronicles the spectacular and destructive power of the four-month-long Kilauea eruption. Watch this 15 minute video below. Big Island Hawaii: ‘Into The Fire’: How Covering A Volcano Changed This Photographer’s Life For Anthony Quintano, former Honolulu Civil Beat photographer and engagement editor, covering the Kilauea eruption — the fiery […]
Another Day, Another Kona Sunset 4
Another Day, Another Kona Sunset Sunrise Kona offers some of the most beautiful sunsets, and sunrises, on earth. See More Kona Sunsets Here Just What Causes Orange (or Red) Sunsets/Sunrises? Molecules and small particles in the atmosphere change the direction of light rays, causing them to scatter. This scattering affects the color of light coming from […]
Another Day, Another Kona Sunset 3
Another Day, Another Kona Sunset Kona offers some of the most beautiful sunsets on earth. See More Kona Sunsets Here Just What Causes Orange (or Red) Sunsets? Molecules and small particles in the atmosphere change the direction of light rays, causing them to scatter. This scattering affects the color of light coming from the sky, but […]
Another Day, Another Kona Sunset – All Sunsets
Another Day, Another Kona Sunset: Almost every day there is more than ‘just a sunset,’ there is a Kona sunset. Are Kona Sunsets Better? Don’t Kona sunsets seem more vivid, more interesting, and more colorful than in other parts of the world? Just what causes the orange and red sunsets on the Big Island to be […]
Another Day, Another Kona Sunset 1
Another Day, Another Kona Sunset Kona offers some of the most beautiful sunsets on earth. See More Kona Sunsets Here Just What Causes Orange (or Red) Sunsets? Molecules and small particles in the atmosphere change the direction of light rays, causing them to scatter. This scattering affects the color of light coming from the sky, but […]
TV: IRONMAN World Championships Airs – Saturday, Nov. 24
2018 Kailua-Kona Ironman On TV: Watch the natural splendor of the Big Island on TV. Or has my wife tells her friends, “My ‘cottonman’ is going to watch the Ironman from our couch.” The annual broadcast special of the IRONMAN World Championship brought to you by Amazon will air Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018 at 11:30 […]
Hawai’i Visitor Arrivals Up 3.5%
Hawai’i Visitor Arrivals Up 3.5% – But Not On The Big Island. The Kilauea Impact: Pele has an influence on visitors to the Big Island, and it is usually very good. Eruptions helped draw more than 2 million visitors to Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park in 2017, according to a new National Park Service report. Those 2,016,702 visitors […]
NPR Science Friday (Big Island) Rapid ‘Ohi’a Death Near HVNP, Hawaiian crow (Alala), Mauna Loa ‘Mars colony’
Science Friday recently broadcast from The Big Island. Local experts and professors talk about a number of Big Island specific tioics: Rapid ‘Ohi’a Death Near HVNP, Hawaiian crow (Alala), Mauna Loa ‘Mars Colony.’ You can listen to the Science Friday podcast about the Big Island here or via iTunes. Hawaiian Crow (Alala): Before the Hawaiian crow became […]
How The Hawaii Volcanic ‘Hot Spot’ Created The Hawaiian Islands
What Is A Volcanic ‘Hot Spot’ And What Does That Have To Do With Hawaiian Island Formation? A volcanic hot spot is an upwelling in the earth’s mantle. Magma rises up through the earth and as magma escapes, it forms a volcano. Imagine a nail in a tire, the air that escapes through the puncture is […]
