This photo taken on Sept. 20, 2015 shows Chinese farmers picking cotton in the fields during the harvest season in Hami, in northwest China’s Xinjiang region. STR/AFP via Getty Images
A cotton fiber carries a record of where it grew. Soil and water leave elemental traces that survive spinning, weaving, dyeing, and shipping. Two American companies have built a business reading that record. On Aug. 5, Beijing barred every organization and individual in China from working with either of them.
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