The abandoned plantation I’m visiting holds more than just crumbling buildings; it carries a dark past. Follow along as I uncover its secrets and explore the haunting history that still lingers today.

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 ...

When the Harris family built their plantation on the water-fed plains of Anderson County, South Carolina, they probably did not envision their cemetery plot becoming a hotspot for spooktacular kayak ...

On March 18, 2022, an international interdisciplinary research team led by researcher Hua Fangyuan from the Ecological Research Center of PKU College of Urban and Environmental Sciences published a ...

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.) — ...