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 ...

Which ocean has the maximum number of islands in the world? Explore why the Pacific Ocean holds this record, along with its ...

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.

"The insights gained from applying infiltration galleries to Pacific atolls offer opportunities for more widespread ...

“The insights gained from applying infiltration galleries to Pacific atolls offers opportunities for more widespread applications within continental aquifers, especially to capture submarine fresh ...

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.) — ...