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.

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 ...

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 ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 12 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Rubber Board (LGM) is targeting the rehabilitation of 4,137 hectares of abandoned plantations this year and 2,750 hectares in 2027, involving ...

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.) — ...