Lakshmipur's bustling betel nut trade supports the livelihoods of approximately 5,000 workers and traders during the season. The district boasts 6,876 hectares of betel nut plantations, with new ...

Climbing trees is second nature to Zhu Mengdan She has long been scaling betel nut and coconut trees at home and when her uncle heard that the Haina ...

Alice Zaslavsky is the host of A Bite To Eat with Alice, weeknights at 6pm on ABC TV and anytime on ABC iview. Alice is the resident culinary correspondent for ABC News Breakfast and ABC Radio, a ...

She had a habit of chewing betel nut, which stained her lips and teeth a terrifying shade of red. She was a typical Chinese Peranakan woman, and she might not be the only one in my family tree.

“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

P’nut, an Instagram-famous squirrel that was seized and euthanized by New York state and entered the political fray before the election, was negative for rabies, state officials said Tuesday.

(NewsNation) — P’nut, an Instagram-famous squirrel, was seized and euthanized by New York State authorities last month. His owner, Mark Longo, told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo on Tuesday he’s filing a ...

Almonds are off-limits if you have a tree nut allergy, but you don't necessarily need to avoid almond extract. Pure almond extract can trigger an allergic reaction. However, imitation almond extract ...

Bhasha Chakrabarti’s images conceal and reveal at the same time. In Karvat—The Turn (Night), at first you can see a heap of wrinkled quilts. But as you go closer, you perceive a body cocooned ...

Here’s how it works. Why it's incredible: Pando looks like a forest, but it's actually one giant tree. Pando is an ancient quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) with 47,000 genetically ...