Navy Protects Native Species at Lualualei

DVIDS— A U.S. Navy environmental team discovered that with some planning, an auspicious wetland, and the use of creative designs, there are opportunities to protect and study native Hawaiian species at a small military facility in west Oahu.

KHON2—21 native plant species in Bishop Museum 2024 Science & Sustainability Festival. “On any given beautiful Hawaiian day, if you look towards the Koʻolau mountain range, it appears green and lush," said Bishop Museum curator of Botany Tim Gallaher, Ph.D. "Most people don’t realize that what they’re looking at are forests consisting of mostly alien species."

hechingerreport.org—A crisis call line run by Native youth, for Native youth. WARM SPRINGS, Ore. — Rosanna Jackson, an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs here, counts herself as one of the resilient ones. Her childhood in the 1970s and 80s was tough. Home didn’t always feel like a safe place to be. There’s a stigma that leads to people “not talking about their […]

Phys.org—Uncovering the diversity of Micropsalliota: Seven new species and one newly recorded species in southern China. Species of Micropsalliota (Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes, Agaricales, Agaricaceae) are mainly distributed in tropical and /or subtropical regions. These fungi are saprophytic in general and can decompose lignin and cellulose, and thus have significant value in ecosystems. Research on the Micropsalliota has a long history of more than one hundred years. However, the molecular phylogenetic study on this genus is very limited and the phylogenetic relationships of species within this genus remain...