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.

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 ...

There's so much history in the state of Alabama, it's not surprising that there are many places here that are rumored to be ...

IPOH: Cemeteries, abandoned buildings, oil palm plantations, and overgrown grassy areas see the most arrests of drug addicts.

Derek McCabe, chairman of the IFO, described the situation as a “natural disaster” and expressed disappointment in the ...

Eucalyptus is now the main tree species in Portugal, covering 845,000 hectares or 26 per cent of forests, including abandoned plantations. Much of the original forests were cut down during the ...

The land remembers. And when it is taken back, it will be by force of history, by force of justice, by force of a people who ...

Across southeastern Liberia, oil palms grow wild in the forest. Known as “country palm,” the Elaeis guineensis tree is native ...

After nearly four years of illegal occupancy, villagers in a southeastern chiefdom are demanding the departure of an oil palm company from their ancestral land.