KWO Editor's Notes
Monthly Columns
- A Legacy of Language, Culture and Community
- 2025 ʻŌʻō Awards: Honoring Selfless Service
- A Hawaiian Phenological Practice
- Hōlanikū i ke Alaula
- From Hawaiʻi to the World: Leadership That Lifts the Lāhui
- My family lost our home in the Maui wildfires
- kōlea Kōlea KŌLEA
- Kuʻi ka Lono Indigenous Education Conference
- Sovereignty Conference to be Held in June
- Alkaline Water: Truth or Trend?
- The Civic Club Movement in Hawaiʻi’s “Ninth Island”
- Nā Hale Aliʻi o Kauikeaouli
- The Palaces of Kauikeaouli
Cover Features
Featured
- Our Grandkids’ Water
- New Climate Action Documentary on Coral Restoration
- Riskier Voyages Ahead
- Combating Coral Bleaching
- Marine National Monument in Jeopardy
- U.S. Bypasses United Nations to Fast-Track Deep-Sea Mining
News
Community
- Mākeke | The Marketplace | May 2025
- A Lifetime Advocate for Native Hawaiian Rights
- Family Reunions: May 2025
- Haliʻa Aloha | May 2025
OHA
- Honoring Mary Kawena Pūkuʻi – A Personal Note
- A Lifetime Advocate for Native Hawaiian Rights
- Kaluaʻaha Church and the Mana of my Kūpuna
- Preserving Mana at Mānā Amid Climate Threats
- Addressing Climate Change with Aloha
- From State to Stewardship: Reclaiming Land, Reclaiming Identity
- ʻĀkoʻakoʻa: Fusing Community and Science for West Hawaiʻi’s Coral Reefs
- Kapu ka Wāhine, Hoʻōla nā Kānaka
Moʻomeheu | Culture
Entertainment
Governance
‘Āina | Land & Water
- Our Grandkids’ Water
- Maunakea on the National Register of Historic Places
- New Climate Action Documentary on Coral Restoration
- Riskier Voyages Ahead
- A Call for Urgent Action at the SOS Ocean Summit in Paris
- Combating Coral Bleaching
- Marine National Monument in Jeopardy
- U.S. Bypasses United Nations to Fast-Track Deep-Sea Mining
Letters to the Editor
On the Continent

Ka Wai Ola | Vol. 42 No. 5 | May 2025
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