The large leaves of the aguaje, a tropical palm tree that grows in the peatlands and other seasonal wetland areas in tropical ...

Country Club Gate, a neighborhood of 62 homes, has launched a reforestation effort to plant 49 coast live oaks — many of them ...

Indigenous to parts of South and Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific islands, the fruit contains a toxin in its seeds ...

Greenhouse frog discovered by UT Arlington team in the Marshall Islands threatens local ecosystems by displacing native ...

Lauren Lamberts, of Belgium, crosses water flowing over a section of the Pacific Crest Trail washed away by storms while ...

The pong pong tree—also known as the “suicide tree”—may be a plot point in the season finale of the HBO series. But the plant ...

Ecosystems which have never been seen before are being accidentally created by humans. They offer a stark look into the ...

Aitutaki is wonderfully unspoiled compared to certain other island hotspots, and this adults-only resort takes the fantasy a ...

Millions of years ago, as the Indo-Australian plate pushed into the Pacific plate, a volcanic arc of islands began to emerge ...

U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono, a Democrat from Hawai‘i and member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, recently ...

When folk musician Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) arrives on the remote, sea-swept Wallis Island, he believes he’s coming to play an intimate gig for a few fans. In reality, the concert is for one man: ...

When Martin Kastner and I started hunting brown tree snakes on Islan Dåno’ (Cocos Island) four years ago, we didn’t know if our efforts would be successful.