The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.

Federal staff cuts and funding freezes could threaten Hawaiʻi’s ability to keep invasive species at bay. Last month, as part of the Trump administration’s slash to services and spending, 60 contracted ...

A groundbreaking AI model, TaxaBind, combines six data sources—images, audio, text, and more—to enhance species classification and ecological predictions, helping scientists track biodiversity and ...

The significance of the SF’s response to rainfall events was analyzed using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) to compare the main effects of rainfall and species (homogeneity of variance and normal ...

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Boosting the housing stock by building higher-density neighborhoods isn’t a new idea — it’s something that county planning documents have floated in the past. The West Maui Community Plan ...

The endangered species’ continued existence in the wild ... It’s estimated to harbor the second-highest density of rare plants of any of the state’s mountain ranges, second only to the ...

Colorful organisms collect on autonomous reef monitoring structures (ARMS). Stelletta hokuwanawana is among the 10 species of newly discovered marine sponge. Credit: Rachel Nunley, Kaloko-Honokōhau ...

The bee species, named Hylaeus paumako — paumākō means “mourning” or “grief” in Hawaiian — is part of a diverse group of endemic bees that are native to Hawaii, with all 64 known species in the same ...

But the entomologist’s trip last May ended up yielding an “exciting” discovery – a previously unknown bee species, the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, or DLNR, announced ...