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.

Deep in the Georgia woods, we explore an abandoned plantation house dating back to the 1840s, still standing nearly 190 years later. Massive chimneys, square-nail construction, lightning rods, gas ...

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 ...

This plantation house dates back to the 1850s and has been abandoned for generations. While the structure stands silent, the land around it tells a different story. Using metal detectors, we searched ...

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.) — ...