in Maui’s temperate rain forest. Each plant is able to retain a lot of water, and the natural layers of the forest mean that when water drops off the top layer, it is intercepted by plants in ...

With seeds dispersed far and wide by birds and rats, the weedy plant spreads by leaps and bounds into the forest. Today, much of the mid-elevation rainforest of East Maui is a patchwork of native ...

HONOLULU — A wildfire burning in a remote Hawaii rainforest is underscoring a new ... does not know yet what plants or wildlife may have been damaged or harmed by the fire, spokesperson Kristen ...