Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara are showing how abandoned coconut plantations have taken over Pacific islands, choking out many native plants, according to Earth.com.

An aerial exploration led to the discovery of a massive abandoned plantation hidden off the coast. Once envisioned as a luxury resort, the property fell into decay after years of financial ...

Coconut palms are king throughout the tropics, serving as the foundation for human lives and cultures across the Pacific Ocean for centuries. However, 200 years of planting by colonial interests ...

What’s new: More than half of the tree cover in Pacific atolls is largely composed of “abandoned and overgrown” colonial-era coconut palm plantations, reveal satellite images in a study published in ...

During the Left Front government (1977–2011), food security policies were integral to its political agenda, especially through land reforms, decentralisation through panchayati raj institutions (PRIs) ...

Heavy D explores an abandoned plantation with a dark history.

Seabirds like these red-footed boobies do not nest in coconut palms, so the reduction of broadleaf forests would deprive the atoll of the nutrients from their droppings. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) — ...