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.

“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 co-advised by ...

An abandoned plantation hides a massive African American cemetery, with countless graves stretching across the overgrown land. This powerful discovery sheds light on forgotten lives and untold stories ...

After all, that winter of 1864, when 60,000 Union soldiers trudged 250 miles from Atlanta to Savannah, ransacking abandoned plantations and businesses along the way, they were joined by 20,000 ...

Ecosystem management projects, including the conversion of abandoned coconut plantations to native forests and the restoration of seabird colonies, have shown great promise on atolls.