Aug. 22—Restoring native plant habitat can be grueling, but it's also very rewarding, says Yongjin Lee, 17, who has been growing indigenous shrubs from seeds in his Hawaii Kai backyard and outplanting ...

Technically, the coconut is not a true nut. Although kukui nut is edible, it can create serious stomach issues when too many ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- Closing out the year, over 90% of Hawaii's native flowering plants, are endemic to the state. If Hawaii loses them, they'd be gone forever. The plant extinction prevention ...

As Hawaii continues its effort to contain wildfires across the Big Island and Maui, and a climbing death toll leaves residents shell-shocked, scientists across the United States have begun to take ...

Hawaii is the most isolated landmass on the planet. Because of this, plants and animals that arrived here millions of years ago have made extraordinary evolutionary adaptations, resulting in unique ...

The East Hawaii Master Gardeners will gather hundreds of plants grown in Hilo for a plant sale on Sunday. There will also be information booths set up by some of the master gardeners, the Big Island ...

Native Hawaiian Plant Society volunteers and community members plant a tree at a workday along Olowalu Stream in Maui in 2021. “We’re in the midst of a heartbreaking wildlife extinction crisis, losing ...

HONOLULU, Hawai’i, March 12, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Monday designated 119,326 acres as protected critical habitat for 11 plants and a Hawaiian picture-wing fly found only on ...

Paula Abraham operates a depalletizer at the bottling plant in Mapunapuna. The 65-year-old bottling plant will be permanently decommissioned at the end of January and soon will build a new warehouse ...

The last bits of ash and greenhouse gases from Hawaii's only remaining coal-fired power plant slipped into the environment this week when the state's dirtiest source of electricity burned its final ...