Articles by Senior Staff Writer Anita Hofschneider
Anita Hofschneider is a senior staff writer at Grist based in Honolulu. She is Chamorro from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and spent a decade reporting on local news in Hawaiʻi before joining Gristʻs Indigenous affairs desk. Her work has won dozens of awards, and she was most recently named a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists.
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Locals have been sounding the alarm for years about Lahaina wildfire risk
While the inferno spread shockingly fast, it didn’t come out of nowhere.
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Wildfires just destroyed a Maui town. Next year could be worse.
The raging fires have killed at least 55 people and caused what is expected to be billions of dollars in damages. Climate change could prompt more of the same.
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Hawaii’s youth-led climate change lawsuit is going to trial next summer
The plaintiffs, most of them Indigenous youth, say the state’s highway projects promote greenhouse gas emissions and threaten their constitutional rights.
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Federal agencies often neglect U.S. territories. New legislation aims to fix that.
The bill would bolster expertise in territories as island communities face increasing threats from climate change.
