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To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. GONZALES, Calif. — It looks like a century-old picture of farming in California: a few dozen Mexican men on their knees, plucking radishes from the ground, tying them into bundles. But the …

In Shark Bay, Australia’s westernmost point, seagrass beds cover the ocean floor, rippling on the ocean floor and being bitten by the dugong, a cousin of the Florida manatees. New research reveals something unexpected about seagrass. Many of them are the same individual plants that have been replicated for about …