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Tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world, and is typically grown on massive plantations such as this one in Munnar, India.

The Price of Tea

Satellites help make a satisfying brew.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
The Yangtze Delta is home to more than eighty million people in an area only a little larger than the state of Indiana.

Repatterning the World

As wildlands shrink, scientists study the ecologies that people have tamed.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
Great Apes, like this silver-back gorilla in Uganda's Bwindi forest, are struggling to survive in the diminishing forests of Central Africa

Mapping the Changing Forests of Africa

A new biomass map of Africa will help answer a complex question: what are the global and local effects of land-use change in African forests?
Feature Article
July 22, 2020
This maize in Zimbabwe appears to be thriving in its early stages, but its grain yield will depend on proper timing of rains.

Distant Fields of Grain

Remote estimates of crop yields help international aid agencies decide how to act.
Feature Article
July 21, 2020
Roman roads, now pressed into modern service, wind through the Burgundy landscape.

Burgundy through Space and Time

Anthropologists and archaeologists explore how people and the environment interact over thousands of years.
Feature Article
July 21, 2020
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