Henequen, the "green gold" of the Yucatán, made fortunes while also enslaving many people. Today, the industry is in ruins.

There are two now-abandoned communities in the Pine Log area that speak to Bay County's timber roots. Here's the history.

Blue travelled across empires as a marker of divinity, power, and painstaking labour; over time, its value shifted from ...

A study of changes to the habitats of more than 700 species reveals massive biodiversity loss—but also possibilities for restoration. "There is a lot of talk about deforestation and biodiversity loss ...

This plantation house dates back to the 1850s and has been abandoned for generations. While the structure stands silent, the land around it tells a different story. Using metal detectors, we searched ...

The sand on the Chagos Islands is impossibly white, and the turquoise waters are the clearest I’ve ever seen. Antoine ...

Do you believe in ghosts? Join us as we journey through America's most terrifying locations where spirits are said to still linger! From abandoned prisons and haunted hotels to eerie cemeteries and ...

The masses are not being policed, targeted, and incarcerated,” Distinguished Professor and author Dylan Rodríguez says; “it's ...

TDM Bhd's unit TDM Plantation Sdn Bhd has appointed Terengganu Dredging Sdn Bhd as its contractor for the oil palm field rehabilitation pilot project at Kemaman.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charles Chesnutt was one of the first widely read Black fiction writers in the U.S. RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via Getty Images ...

A judge ordered that gates blocking access to Big House Cemetery on St. Helena must be opened while a lawsuit over access to ...

In Burundi, large-scale tea production is hampering efforts to protect endangered species, such as chimpanzees. A tea plantation stretches as far as the eye can see on the edge of Kibira National Park ...