EditorialModel Jalicia Nightengale wearing a custom design by Lauren Austin during Crop Over, an annual celebration of music and heritage in Barbados, in July 2022. (Shaniqwa Jarvis/The New York Times)
EditorialA 40-foot masonry chimney and remains of a sugar cane press are remnants of the plantation once owned by David Levy Yulee in Homosassa, Fla., April 3, 2022. (Todd Anderson/The New York Times)
EditorialSugar cane fiber is burned to heat cane juice at the Biobando trapiche facility in Valle del Cauca, Colombia on Oct. 8, 2020. (Federico Rios/The New York Times)
EditorialNik Heynen, a geography professor at the University of Georgia, points to a map of Sapelo Island, which is part of the collection of barrier islands off the coast of Georgia, in Sapelo Island, Ga. on Dec. 7, 2020. (Rinne Allen/The New York Times)
EditorialA locomotive pulls cars of sugar cane, an agricultural industry that owes its early prosperity in part to indentured laborers brought from South Pacific Islands, to a mill in Mackay, Australia, July 31, 2020. (Faye Sakura/The New York Times)
EditorialA German visitor offers an elephant a snack of bananas and sugar cane at Maetaeng Elephant Park, north of the city of Chiang Mai, Thailand, on March 22, 2020. (Adam Dean/The New York Times)
EditorialEXCLUSIVE: British schoolgirl Stefika (correct) Smith, 17, left London because of knife crime for a new life in her parents' native Jamaica only to be stabbed to death on the Caribbean island.
EditorialEXCLUSIVE: British schoolgirl Stefika Smith, 17, left London because of knife crime for a new life in her parents' native Jamaica only to be stabbed to death on the Caribbean island