Hawaiian telescope project seeks way forward amid protests

Nature: Protests against the Thirty Meter Telescope increased in early April, as construction was set to begin on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The battle over the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) escalated on 21 April, as hundreds of protestors took to the streets of Honolulu to demonstrate against the planned observatory. Construction of the TMT is on hold as astronomers and Native Hawaiians continue the decades-long discussion about whether it and other astronomical facilities belong atop the sacred mountain of Mauna......

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