Long-Lost Photos Reveal Life of Mexican Migrant Workers in 1950s America

Portrait of Mexican farm laborer, Rafael Tamayo, working in the United States under the Bracero Program, 1957.

History Long-Lost Photos Reveal Life of Mexican Migrant Workers in 1950s America World War II affected the U.S. labor market in countless ways, but in the farms of the South and West, the impact was perhaps most visible when harvest time arrived. With American workers off

Science More than 700 North American Bee Species Are Headed Toward Extinction Population levels of more than 700 North American bee species are declining as habitat loss and pesticide use continue at a breakneck pace, according to a new report. The report from the Center for

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World Ordinary Citizens Are Hoping to Make a Difference at China's Biggest Political Meet-Up China’s "two Sessions" kicks off this week, bringing together all of the movers and shakers from the top echelons of government. Here are some of this year’s big issues and the ordinary people looking to raise them

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Health Farm Animals Are Now Resistant to a Last-Resort Antibiotic Drug resistance is a growing global health problem; experts estimate that in 2050, 10 million people will die from infections that are resistant to antibiotics each year. The use of antibiotics in

Newsfeed The Aussies Just Celebrated Diversity in an Ad About Lamb and It's Absolutely Perfect "Too many perky white males are contributing to a lack of diversity on our screens." So begins an Australian lamb marketing organization ad that has functions as a heart-warming tribute to the country's multiculturalism

World China May Not Have Enough Arable Land to Feed Its People. But Big Changes Are Coming Over the next three decades some 300 million Chinese are expected to abandon once productive fields for jobs in the city. Faced with a growing crisis, the Chinese Communist Party has been taking drastic steps to safeguard the nation’s food security

In this April 16, 2014 photo, a tassel of corn grows in a field on Pioneer Hi-Bred International land in Waialua, Hawaii. The nation’s leading corn seed companies have farms in Hawaii, but their fields have become a flash point in a spreading debate over genetic engineering in agriculture. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)

Science How Activists Are Restricting Use of a Major Pesticide On the Hawaiian island of Maui, nearly 5,000 miles from the offices of federal regulators in Washington D.C., a small group of activists have figured out how to use a little-known provision of a federal law to stop some uses of the pesticide glyphosate

Business There's a New Way to Buy Flowers This Valentine's Day Startups around the country are testing out new models of buying and selling flowers that limit spoilage and lower prices. TIME breaks down their missions and where

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Health Why Organic Food Might Be Worth the High Price The most infamous fact about organic food is that it’s expensive—about 47% more expensive, according to a recent analysis from Consumer Reports. But a new review study published in Nature

Newsfeed Someone Stole 40,000 Pounds of Hamburger Meat from Milwaukee A truck containing enough ground beef to make 160,000 burgers has disappeared. The theft was discovered when a truck loaded with 20 tons of meat failed to make a scheduled delivery to a meatpacking

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