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How climate change and a deadly fungus threaten our coffee supply
2014-06-02 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: In the next 24 hours, the world will guzzle 1.6 billion cups of coffee, the most popular beverage on the planet besides water and tea. It`s big business, too: Global coffee exports totaled $28.6 billion in 2013--after oil, it is the world`s most traded commodity. But there`s something else that likes coffee even more than humans: Hemileia vastatrix, better known as coffee rust or roya disease. It`s a fungal parasite that survives on coffee tree leaves, and in the 2012-13 crop year alone, it caused...
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