EditorialOvenny Jermeto, a veteran of the U.S. military, at a Veterans Affairs medical center in Oahu, Hawii, a five-hour flight from his home in the Marshall Islands, May 9, 2023. (Akasha Rabut/The New York Times)
EditorialTransmission wires are buried and twisted across hardened lava in the Leilani Estates neighborhood of Puna, on the Big Island of Hawii on May 13, 2022. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)