One of Hawaii’s oldest and biggest former pineapple producers is getting back into the farming business with a crop used to ...

The relation between this native Hawaiian plant and the commercial cotton plant (Gossypium hirsutum) is close enough, however, that it has offered help to the U.S. cotton crop. Cotton growers used ...

The state must spend millions to see if more electricity can be produced using heat deep under the earth. And it will have to convince residents to support such an effort.

Kiawe – (often times pronounced as Keawe) – Is a species of mesquite tree. It is a thorny tree, native to Colombia, Ecuador ...

Hawaii bans all off-site advertising: That means no billboards, no ads for products or services on public property, and no ...

Even if you are far from a factory, the ocean can still feel its smoke. A new study led by scientists at the University of ...

Green Point Nurseries in Hilo partners with the University of Hawaii to create new varieties of tropical flowers, including ...

State Sen. Tim Richards has an idea for a new hydropower project. He pitched it to the attendees at a Waimea community town ...

This plant nourishes her second-born son, Hāloa, the first Native Hawaiian. For Native Hawaiians, kalo, also known as taro—a tropical plant prized for its starchy, nutritious, rootlike corm a ...

The endemic Ohia Lehua trees are among native plants in Hawaiian ecosystems in wet and dry climates, including high elevation bogs. It is facing a threat from Rapid Ohia Death fungus. Maui County ...

The Biden administration had mandated that coal- and gas-fired power plants drastically reduce emissions by the 2030s.