“People actually ask if I dye them,” said Tony Romani, walking through a mass of orchids so flamboyantly colorful they could make rainbows weep in despair. Romani grows vanda orchids, the showiest of ...

I still remember my college days, when friends from Northeast India told me about the exquisite blue vanda, a rare orchid ...

In 1977, the Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii erupted. The village of Kalapana was evacuated and countless acres of farmland were destroyed. One victim of the eruption was Haruo Taira, a ...