Her appointment is historic for our department and I am confident her leadership will continue to strengthen our service to the Hawaiʻi Island community.” ...

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers identified 10 new species and seven new groups (genera) of Hawaiian leaf-roller moths. While new species are frequently discovered, the description of a new ...

Almost every forest bird species in Hawaii is spreading avian malaria, posing an increasing threat to wildlife in the popular honeymoon destination, according to a new study published in Nature ...

Illustration of the Hawaiian ibis. Credit: S Citron/University of Lethbridge. Islands are known for producing unusual animals, and a newly studied extinct bird from Hawaii may be one of the strangest ...

Islands are famous for producing some of the world's strangest creatures, and now a new international study shows that the evolution of bird species on Hawaiian islands includes an ibis with unusually ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A new study published Tuesday is helping scientists understand why avian malaria is present in almost all of the same places that mosquitoes are found in Hawaii. Research ...

A NETFLIX movie called THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR has earned an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary. And the woman who made it won a director’s award at the Sundance Film Festival. The movie is a ...

New research on avian malaria, which has decimated Hawaii's beloved birds, explains how non-native birds play a key role in transmission and contribute to the widespread distribution of the disease.

A Hawai'i 'Amakihi, one of just 15 surviving bird species in the Hawaiian honeycreeper family, is a frequent reservoir for avian malaria. Originally, more than 50 distinct species of Hawaiian ...