Inside the Campaign to Save an Imperiled Cambodian Rainforest
We were seated near a lush river in the Southern Cardamom Mountains,…
India Cities Ban Eggs, Drawing a Backlash
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In the summer of 2020, out of the blue, my father told…
In Afghanistan, ‘Who Has the Guns Gets the Land’
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — For decades, roughly a thousand families called the low-slung…
In Louisiana, Alligator Finds a Place at the Tailgate
The alligator was so grateful, it asked to be made a part…
A Thanksgiving History Lesson, in a Handful of Corn
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The Searing Beauty, and Harsh Reality, of a Kentucky Tobacco Harvest
I step into the tobacco field as the first rays of sunlight…
In Hard Times, Afghan Farmers Are Turning to Opium for Security
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How India’s Farmers Got Narendra Modi to Back Down
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