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.

Image courtesy of Denali DeGraf. “The fire went right up the line of the plantations that were planted many years ago and then abandoned. If those had been pruned and thinned, if the excess ...

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 ...

"Coconut oil used to be essential to atoll economies, but today most coconut palm plantations are abandoned and overgrown," said lead author Michael Burnett, a doctoral student in UCSB's ...

There was no defense against the fungus; the company simply abandoned plantations as they became unprofitable and moved on. During the 1930s Unifruit moved to the Pacific coast, and depression ...

The Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the Southeast of Cuba has survived intact primarily due to the fact that the area was mostly abandoned in the early 20 th century as this region’s ...

The plantation and commodities ministry has urged the Malaysian Rubber Board to formulate a consolidation programme to develop abandoned rubber plantations and smallholdings in order to reduce the ...

Some of the lands were once a coconut plantation, according to the Miami Herald. In one shaded area, I spotted what appeared to be an abandoned animal cage embedded in the rocks. I thought it ...