Documenting dying languages

What are the foods called jogue, yipe, simoi in Kim? Only about two dozen people know. Sad.

Why biodiversity matters Shahid Naeem’s article “Lessons from the Reverse Engineering of Nature”...
Countdown finally starts to the end of Expo Milano 2015 I’ve been hoping I could get away with not mentioning...
What you need to know about viroids What do stunted coconut palms, misshapen potato tubers, and peach...

Festivals, rituals and seed-saving go hand in hand, as this photo essay on Koraput’s Adivasis shows for World Indigenous Peoples Day.
Speaking of unlikely alliances, Israeli and Palestinian researchers have teamed up on wheat that can take the heat in a warming, drying Middle East.
Not to be outdone in the resilience stakes, the cowpea shrugs off both drought and flooding, according to FAO.
If all this talk of resilient crops has you inspired, here’s a how-to on starting your own community seed bank, in South Africa or anywhere else for that matter.
And for when preservation is really about nostalgia: Romania’s Buzau genebank is keeping childhood mint flavours alive, chocolate, clove and vanilla notes included.