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Huanjia Zhang

Huanjia Zhang

Huanjia Zhang is a science journalist and a quasi-Philadelphian. He loves writing about agriculture, food and people. He also loves making dumplings from scratch.

Nikita Dhar standing in front of a building

International students face mental health challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic

 Health
• February 5, 2021

The crisis has exacerbated long-overlooked anxiety, depression and other mental health problems among this population

Davon Goodwin on his farm in Laurinburg, North Carolina

For Black farmers, climate change magnifies existing inequality

 Environment
• January 19, 2021

Global warming does not discriminate, but the system that prepares farmers for it does

Meat processed in a meat-processing facility

Go big or go home mentality leaves out small butchers and farmers

 Environment
• January 11, 2021

The pandemic has exposed and worsened deep-seated problems in a meat industry dominated by huge producers

Farm on the edge of northern Chesapeake Bay, with little vegetation buffer and riprap shoreline

For coastal farmers, climate change rubs salt in their wounds

 Environment
• December 23, 2020

Spurred by global warming and development, saltwater intrusion is a growing threat to coastal agriculture

 
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