Hawaii’s ‘Rapid Ohia Death’ Disease Is Killing the Forest Canopy
And There's No End In Sight from: NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE Mythology holds that the goddess Pele, in a fit of jealous rage, transformed the man she loved into a gnarly evergreen called the ohia. That’s the tragic tale behind the beautiful tree that, in its many forms, makes up most of Hawaii’s forest canopy. (It also grows as a shrub or an epiphyte—a tree that grows on other trees.) It would […]