Tag: Hurricane Walaka

  • This Remote Hawaiian Island Just Vanished

    This Remote Hawaiian Island Just Vanished

    Photo: Before, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Scientists are concerned about what will happen to the hundreds of endangered species that once called East Island home. Hurricane Walaka, one of the most powerful Pacific storms ever recorded, has erased an ecologically important remote northwestern island from the Hawaiian archipelago. Using satellite imagery, federal scientists confirmed…