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How climate change is threatening the flavour — and future — of India’s prized Darjeeling tea

On a misty March day in Darjeeling, Satish Mitruka walks through the dried-up leaves of his estate’s tea bushes, explaining how changing weather patterns are affecting his business. “Darjeeling is a dying industry,” said Mitruka, a third-generation tea harvester in this area of West Bengal in India’s northeast, adding that …

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