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Kew quest to prevent coffee dying out
2015-03-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
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 worlds 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...
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