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Facing a Future of Drought, Spain Turns to Medieval Solutions and ‘Ancient Wisdom’

Acequias, a network of water channels created by the Moors over 1,000 years ago, are being excavated and brought back…

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India Struggles to Eradicate an Old Scourge: Witch Hunting

Once driven largely by superstition, the brutal practice is now often simply a tool to oppress women, in many cases violently.

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In an Indian Village, Cultivating Girls’ Big-League Dreams

The girls arrive at the makeshift cricket ground on their bicycles, a narrow file of white athletic uniforms breezing down…

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In Rural Ukraine, Medicine and Hope Roll In on a Truck

Young mothers gather with baby carriages in the morning chill and exchange village gossip while waiting to visit a health…

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How a Chance Discovery of Old Negatives Revealed a Master Photographer

For Zaharia Cusnir, photography was an all-consuming passion. Now, nearly 30 years after he died in obscurity, the Moldovan’s fame…

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An Agonizing Wait for a Migrant Worker’s Final Journey Home

When the body arrived, weeks after the laborer’s death in a faraway country, it was almost 9 p.m. and the…

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Haunted by Disaster, Volunteers Search for Survivors in Indonesia

Heavy rains drenched the collapsed mountainside, making sludge of the rust-colored soil. Intermittently, the earth violently shuddered as an ...

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