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In Yemen, farmers choose narcotic over other crops, exacerbating climate woes

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Farmers are draining groundwater around Yemen’s capital and removing soil to cultivate the narcotic green leaf qat that dominates life in the country, threatening to exhaust precious resources in the climate-vulnerable nation.

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