RSS Feed
Telegraph: Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew have begun a desperate bid to find a new bean of coffee which can thrive as the climate warms, before the world’s supplies run out.
Currently, just one variety of coffee bean – Coffea arabica – is primarily grown throughout the world by manufacturers. But it cannot survive at high temperatures, and botanists fear that up to 100 per cent of current crops will be lost by 2080 if climate change predictions for global warming hold true.
Now scientists......
Read Complete Article at Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS News Feed
Kew quest to prevent coffee dying out
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 2nd, 2015
Posted in Water Conservation