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 ...

A biodiverse marvel surrounded by stunning Caribbean waters, Saint Croix is the largest and least crowded of the paradisal U.S. Virgin Islands. Sun-seekers flock here to unplug along the sandy shores ...

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.) — ...

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 ...

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 ...

Denmark’s long-running effort to create forests on former farmland has revealed a striking trade-off between carbon storage ...