The abandoned leper colony of Chios is to be renovated and become a focal point in the history of the Greek island.

For over a hundred years, the isolated peninsula on Molokai’s north shore has been home to roughly 8,000 with Hansen’s disease, formerly known as leprosy. A cure was found in the 1960′s ...

The Kalaupapa Peninsula is located on the north shore of Molokai and is one of the most unique places in all the islands. In the mid-1800s, a leprosy epidemic broke out in Hawaii. Worried that it ...

It’s hard to fathom just how vital air service is to some of the more remote communities in the US, and possibly none have suffered quite as much as Molokai and Lānaʻi in the Hawaiian Islands. Last ...

the conservancy’s Molokai program director. “That’s when we decided we should start managing for the shearwaters because they were trying to establish a colony.” The conservancy faced ...

You can get something of a feel for what I mean by heading over to the aforementioned Brooklyn Vegan, who have just debuted a new song off of Utilitarian, “Leper Colony.” For the most part, it’s a ...