Living creatures can be grouped as specialists or generalists based on their strategies for finding food and habitat: generalists thrive…
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Kia'i Moku Column
Stopping both global pandemics and biological invasions requires flattening curves.
In 2002, an unusually large and strange-looking chameleon turned up in a remote area of West Maui. The resulting media…
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Native plant firebreaks may be a tool to control wildfires
A few hundred feet from the traffic of North Kīhei road, native dragonflies swoop and dive, snatching their food mid-flight….
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Rats triggered changes in the environment of Hawai’i prior to humans settlement
Palm trees and Hawaiʻi go together like fish and poi, right? Kind of. The coconut palms that line the beaches…
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Quantifying miconia’s impacts; big leaves mean big water drops and high levels of erosion
On most weekdays, on the slopes and gulches above and below the Hāna Highway, a crew is hacking its way…
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Citizen scientists and concerned community find ants new to Hawaiʻi
In 2017, a taro farmer in Hanalei on Kaua’i found a strange ant in his lo’i – large and brownish…
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