On the slopes of the Himalayas, workers at the world’s first biodynamic tea farm wait patiently until the planets align to pick India’s most expensive tea.

Climate crisis threatens British cup of tea as rising temperatures hit top growing countries. Erratic rainfall patterns caused by global warming could lead to flooding and drought in key exporter ...

As Lord Beckett, the villainous, tea-and-sugar-sipping agent of the British East India Company in the Pirates of Caribbean movies might have put it, "it's just good business." ...

In 1848, the British East India Company sent Robert Fortune on a trip to China's interior, ... These chemical compounds are not necessary for the primary survival of the tea plant’s cells; ...

JORHAT, India — “This is your own home now,” announces our host, welcoming us to Thengal Manor.And we wish it were. One of India’s great tea dynasties has opened the gracious family villa ...

From the 18th century, British botanists believed they could grow tea in India but they didn’t have the technology — the history of tea thus has colourful characters who disguised themselves ...

The British also discovered tea growing in India’s North East, which led them to plant Chinese tea varieties in huge plantations developed for the Western market.

2. Assam. The largest tea growing area in the world is found in Assam. Also, Assam is the largest contributor of tea in India. In fact, contrary to myths that we started growing tea only after it ...