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This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. By the time Hurricane ... have brought me to see the latest in adaptive beach protection. It’s called the ...

This story appears in the June 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. In an earthen pit in central China, under what used to be their village’s persimmon orchard, three middle-aged women ...