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Authoritarian food obsessions can have a lasting legacy.

Photographer Reza Akram spent seven years documenting angampora, an indigenous fighting style banned by British colonizers. 

With 300 decadent recipes, a relentless priest united regional dialects and preserved a common tongue.

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Despite traditional and modern protections, Palau's massive mollusks are at risk.

Honeybees aren't your typical livestock.

The Beckwourth pack is only the third to establish itself in the state in the last century.

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The double whammy of drought and water regulations has led some farmers to sacrifice thirsty crops—with visually striking consequences.

Sometimes, rebellion means goji berries in your beer.

Born in an era of rations, these scrappy recipes relied on cheap pantry staples.

Deep in the wilderness, some say, forest giants claimed by the British Crown still tower above lesser trees.

There's a magic trick baked into Peach Puzzle.

Historically, institutions often interred their dead with simple markers. In Massachusetts, researchers are learning about the patients' lives and the facilities' fraught legacies.

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For decades the city of Mumbai operated by two—or more—different clocks.

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With a new train line threatening its habitat, the big cat may be the key to protecting this Mexican reserve—and everything else in it.