The rare bean that may save coffee from extinction

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  In a world that consumes 2 billion cups of coffee each day,

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  climate change is threatening the most popular species.

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  How one leading botanist is scouring remote corners of the earth to find new beans that could keep our cups full.

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  And yet it can still lay claim to its very own wanted poster.

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  In 2018, Aaron Davis, head of coffee research at the Royal Botanic Gardens Q in London,

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  was desperate to track down the rare species, which hadn't been seen in the wild since 1954.

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  The data he'd found in historical records suggested that stenophylla might be resistant to drought and heat,

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  increasingly valuable traits in a warming and drying world.

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  So he created a,

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