Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coconuts are exotic, edible fruits produced by coconut trees. The coconut tree is a kind of palm tree with a single straight trunk ...

Typhoons have battered the Philippines over the past year and the country's already vulnerable coconut trees took a hit even as demand for trendy coconut-based products is climbing. "Tree damage is ...

PANAJI, India (AP) — Coconut trees are no longer considered trees in the tropical Indian state of Goa, where authorities have reclassified them as palms to allow farmers to cut them down more easily.

Coconut trees grow slowly and are difficult to clone. Scientists a multiplied seedlings faster and conserved coconut genetic resources for the long term. This will help preserve coconut tree ...

The aging demographic in much of Asia is a well-known concern, but the region faces another worry about a population that grew up in the years after World War II: the coconut trees are getting old.

Few plants in the world have earned a title as sweeping as "tree of a thousand uses," but the coconut palm comes closer to justifying it than almost anything else in the botanical world. Known ...

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LUCENA CITY — Amid the extreme heat and water shortages brought by the El Niño phenomenon, the Philippine Coconut Authority ...

How fast could you climb a coconut tree? There's a new record in the event — part of a famous sports festival held in Tahiti.