Extreme drought is pushing one of Maui’s most unusual plants into a dangerous decline.  Once on the road to recovery, recent climate change has left the Haleakala Silversword struggling to survive.

UH Biologist Paul Krushelnycky blames global warming patterns. With rising temperatures and increasingly dry conditions expected to continue … the future of the Silversword doesn’t look good.

Krushelnycky recently co-authored a paper on the decline of the Haleakala Silversword in the journal Global Change Biology.

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(Molly Solomon / HPR News)