Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara are showing how abandoned coconut plantations have taken over Pacific ...

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 ...

Hidden among the islands, an abandoned plantation settlement features historic ruins, rusting transportation relics, and a ...

Abandoned structure and lush vegetation at St. George Village Botanical Garden, Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands - OnAssignment/Tripadvisor A biodiverse marvel ...

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 ...

LAHAINA, Hawaii—For years, local fire officials worried about the blanket of invasive grasslands overtaking the abandoned sugar plantations above Hawaii’s ancestral capital. The highly flammable ...

Hidden deep in the Georgia woods lies a forgotten plantation cemetery containing hundreds of graves spanning generations of history. From a rare 19th-century grave house and unmarked burial sites to ...

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.) — ...