Wild vanilla species face habitat loss up to 53% under climate change scenarios. Some may expand habitats by 140% but still ...

Vanilla flavoring is widely used in food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. The primary source, Vanilla planifolia, however, is ...

The study found that climate change may lead to reduced overlap in suitable habitats for wild vanilla and their pollinators.

Climate crisis could force wild vanilla plants and pollinating insects apart, threatening global supply. Frontiers. Journal Frontiers in Plant Science DOI 10.3389/fpls.2025.1585540. Keywords ...

The quintessential ice cream flavour is under threat, and many other dessert staples along with it, according to climate change researchers at the University of Costa Rica and Belgium's KU Leuven ...

The history of vanilla is deeply entwined with colonialism and slavery, marked by the remarkable yet tragic story of Edmond ...

To begin with, while the vanilla orchid — planifolia is the species most widely grown — is a hermaphrodite (like most flowering plants), with both male and female parts, it can’t pollinate ...

What is perhaps most compelling about vanilla is the fact that its multi-billion dollar industry exists because of a 12-year-old enslaved boy who lived 180 years ago on a remote Indian Ocean ...

Farmers also figured out that when you bend vanilla vines, which grow about 30 to 50 feet tall, and keep them low, they produce more flowers. But the orchids’ bloom is brief: Morning sees them ...