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A herd of axis deer in Maui. Hawaii is the most isolated major land mass in the world and that isolation has led to very high rates of endemism.Uniquely adapted endemic species are often sensitive to competition from invasive species and Hawaii has had numerous extinctions (List of extinct animals of the Hawaiian Islands).
This is a list of Superfund sites in Hawaii designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a brief list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean ...
Pages in category "Environmental issues in Hawaii" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
This is a list of census-designated places in Hawaii. There are no separately incorporated cities in the entire state; Honolulu County is both a city and county. There are 151 census-designated places.
Located about 2,300 miles (3,680 km) from the nearest continental shore, the Hawaiian Islands are the most isolated group of islands on the planet. The plant and animal life of the Hawaiian archipelago is the result of early, very infrequent colonizations of arriving species and the slow evolution of those species—in isolation from the rest of the world's flora and fauna—over a period of ...
Hawaii: Destroyed by a tsunami following the April 2, 1868 Hawaii earthquake; never resettled. [2] Ferndale: Hawaii: Little is known about this town, but it seems like it was subsumed after a certain point by Kurtistown. [3] Hālawa: 1950s Molokai: Abandoned after tsunamis in 1946 and 1957 [4] Halstead Plantation: 1898 Honolulu
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The hooded pitohui.The neurotoxin homobatrachotoxin on the birds' skin and feathers causes numbness and tingling on contact.. The following is a list of poisonous animals, which are animals that passively deliver toxins (called poison) to their victims upon contact such as through inhalation, absorption through the skin, or after being ingested.