Non-native grasses cover a quarter of the Hawaiian islands and have been blamed in part for the deadliest wildfire in modern US history. Subscribe: https://ab.co/3yqPOZ5 Read more here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-1...

The devastating blaze was the result of a complex concoction of factors, fanned by extreme winds of over 100 kilometres per hour, and a hot, dry climate in a region in the grips of a flash drought, not well prepared for fire.

But experts have also pointed blame firmly at invasive grass species, which cover a quarter of Hawaii, according to scientists.

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