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Taste of Tomorrow | Agriculture

The 'apple library' with a lost world in its trees

(Credit: Getty Images)

Editor's Picks

The leaves of the plant used for toilet paper next to a mint leaf (Credit: Robin Greenfield)

The people growing their own toilet paper

By Soo Min Kim

A medical worker testing for whooping cough in Croatia in 2023 (Credit: Getty Images)

The race for a lasting whooping cough vaccine

By Christine Ro

A man poses on a mountain of hundreds of bison skulls (Credit: Detroit Public Library)

The dark secret behind the 'bison skull mountain'

By Lucy Sherriff

Two women from the Vetta Kuruman tribe stand next to one of the giant tubers (Credit: Sai Krishan, Thirunelly Tribal Special Intervention Programme)

The women saving India's endangered giant yams

By Kamala Thiagarajan

A tagged condor flying in the skies above Yurok Territory, one of a number of successful releases from the tribal breeding programme (Credit: The Yurok Tribe)

Bringing back California's mighty condor

By Lucy Sherriff

Earth

The coypu, nutria, swamp beaver or swamp rat (Credit: Getty Images)

How a Soviet swamp rat scheme went horribly wrong

By Matthew Ponsford

An illustration showing two women piecing together letters in front of wind farms and electricity pylons (Credit: Serenity Strull/ Getty Images)

The people cracking the toughest climate words

By Francis Agustin

A male Capercaillie lekking (Credit: Cairngorms Capercaillie Project)

The diversion ploy to save Scotland's capercaillie

By Jocelyn Timperley

Five environmental activists in a basement in East Berlin stand by a printer (Credit: The Stasi Records Archive)

'It was a total fiasco for the Stasi'

By Sophie Hardach