Hawaii’s ‘Rapid Ohia Death’ Killing the Forest Canopy
Hawaii is fighting to save its beloved ohia from an infestation of alien spores.
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
