EXCLUSIVE: Villagers in West Pentire, Cornwall, threatened to create Dad's Army-style patrols to ensure outsiders stop ...

In early May, which was harvest season, the white poppy flowers turned the plains into a snowfield. Varieties with high harvest yield were created and cultivation technology was transmitted to ...

Taliban police officers destroy a poppy field last month in Afghanistan's Parwan province. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post) Prolonged droughts attributed to climate change are making it ...

The total area of opium poppy cultivation in violence-hit Manipur has declined 60 per cent since 2021, latest data from the autonomous government institution Manipur Remote Sensing Applications ...

Its subject is the industry around the white poppy flower that the East India Company cultivated for more than 150 years across India’s Gangetic plain, the base of a triangular trade that paid ...

Opium poppy and Thunberg's fleabane depicted in a woodblock print by Kono Bairei, 1900. (Florilegius/Universal Images Group/Getty Images) Review by Becca Rothfeld ...

Blue and Pink Poppy Flowers. Poppy flowers come in beautiful colors, including many lovely shades of pink. ©natalie_board/iStock via Getty Images. Pink poppies are symbols of kindness, compassion, and ...

A lost Kindle sets the stage for a journey into opium's gripping past and its significance today. Presenting a compelling book list with secrets of the poppy.

PREMIUM In Smoke and Ashes, released on July 15, Ghosh returns to the opium poppy, in a work of non-fiction that is part memoir and part travelogue, to explore how this one plant has contributed ...

More iStock / Getty Images. The opium poppy is a plant from which opiate drugs are derived. The milky latex found in the seed capsules of the plant contains various naturally occurring opiate ...